AP Kinshasa 

Major flooding hit neighbourhoods in Congo’s capital Kinshasa, killing at least 19 people and causing severe damage, authorities said. Heavy rains on Friday through Saturday triggered floods and landslides in Kinshasa’s western neighbourhood of Ngaliema, killing at least 17 people, local mayor Fulgence Bolokome told the radio station Top Congo. Two avenues in the city were also cut off, he added.

Two other people died when the deluge toppled a wall in the southern neighbourhood of Lemba, Mayor Jean-Serge Poba said. A police camp and a bridge were damaged. Meanwhile, the death toll in floods in South Africa’'s Eastern Cape has risen to 86, the police minister said on Saturday as rescuers continued to retrieve bodies from the floodwater.