Felix Tshisekedi has decided to make it mandatory for passengers on the lake, the site of regular drownings, to have lifebuoys.has declared Friday a day of mourning with 114 people still missing days after a boat capsized on Lake Kivu, killing 13, the presidency said.
“I was sitting in the bow. A big wave hit the pirogue, which capsized and we fell into the water,” Alice Uwezo Ruchiga, 18, told AFP.Isaac Ngeriyo, who also survived, added: “A woman and her child could not find a place on the mattress, and they drowned.” Apollinaire Bulindi, an honorary provincial minister and engineer urged Tshisekedi on Tuesday to make good on a campaign pledge to repair the Goma-Bukavu highway that many of the drowned passengers may have taken but is currently unusable.
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