The Festival Amani is an annual festival that takes place in the context of peace building in the

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and the

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. Amani is the Swahili word for Peace.

Description

left, Mohombi at the Amani Festival in 2022">Amani_Festival.html" ;"title="Mohombi at the Amani Festival">Mohombi at the Amani Festival in 2022 The Festival Amani is held annually in Goma, a town near the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The festival hosts Music, Dance, Dancer, Comedy, Comedies and other talented artists in Goma. The festival is held annually and lasts for 3 days in February of each year. The festival's name comes from the Swahili word for "peace" and it celebrates that

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was included in the

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Bintu Keita at the Amani Festival in 2022

In 2020, 36,000 people attended in defiance of an increase in violence in the area. The festival opened with a Congolese interpretation of

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M'bilia Bel M'bilia Bel (born January 10, 1959) is a rumba and world music singer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is known as the "Queen of Congolese and African Rumba". She rose to fame after first being discovered by Sam Manguana and later ...

was one of the headline performers and she include hits Mpeve ya Longo and Yamba Nga. The festival returned in 2022 after a year's absence due to the

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Bintou Keita Bintou Keita (born 1958) is a United Nations diplomat from Guinea. She is an expert in conflict resolution. Since January 2021, she has been the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Early life ...

on the United Nations was there helping to give out leaflets warning people of misinformation available on social media.{{Citation, last=Photos, first=MONUSCO, title=815A0016, date=2022-02-04, url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/monusco/51863141221/, access-date=2022-02-05

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