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Halfway through his interview with Monocle, Governor Moïse Katumbi stops to read a text message. A generator has broken down in Kalemie, he says, referring to a town about 800km from the Lubumbashi base. I’ll tell them to fix it as soon as possible and to let me know if they need spare parts. It would take six days and a trip across Lake Tanganyika to get there.
Photographer: Frédéric Courbet Writer: Steve Bloomfield
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