http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21204861 Matonge: Congo-Rwanda dispute hits heart of Europe By Dan Damon BBC World Service, Brussels 30 January 2013 Last updated at 04:10 There was violence in Brussels following the re-election of Joseph Kabila as Congolese president in 2011 Tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are being played out among the diaspora communities - and perhaps nowhere more so than in one district of the Belgian capital. African grocers, dozens of hairdressers, and music and video stores line the streets of Matonge in Brussels. There is a Matonge in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa too. When Belgium was the colonial power, the Congolese who came to Brussels created a marketplace a little bit like home - although Matonge in Kinshasa is a lot livelier, and the weather is better. There is a substantial community of people from Central Africa living in the Brussels Matonge - including around 25,000 from DR Congo, many of w...
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