Massive crowds thronged for a glimpse of Pope Francis as he made his way through the streets of Kinshasa Tuesday, after arriving in DR Congo with a message of peace for a country ravaged by decades of conflict. Waving flags and cheering, residents of Kinshasa ran after the popemobile, which wound through working-class districts towards the presidential palace, after the 86-year-old Pope Francis descended from his plane in a wheelchair. The Argentine pontiff is on his fifth trip to Africa, during which he will also visit conflict-hit South Sudan. FRANCE 24’s Rome correspondent Seema Gupta is travelling with the Pope.
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