There is no electricity or running water in Koidu, and virtually no paved roads.
In most regions, there are virtually no paved roads, telephones or public transportation.
And even if it does, he said, how will the new nation survive, with virtually no government institutions, few paved roads and desperate poverty?
Now most roads are paved.
Salama described the area, which is around 1400 kilometres from the capital Kinshasa, as isolated and hard-to-reach, with virtually no functioning telecommunications and few paved roads.
Most streets are not paved.
Non-urban area here refers to a town/village where some of the inhabitants are skilled or unskilled artisans, but still engage in farming and the others, say 60%, engage in subsistence farming; while urban area refers to a town with virtually all the trappings of a city – good paved roads, electricity, pipe-borne water and almost all the inhabitants do not engage in subsistence agriculture.
Semi-urban area, here, refers to a town where some of the inhabitants are skilled or unskilled artisans, but still engage in farming and the others, say 60%, engage in subsistence farming; while urban area refers to a town with virtually all the trappings of a city - good paved roads, electricity, pipe-borne water and almost all the inhabitants do not engage in subsistence agriculture.
About half of the roads are paved.
Nearly four-fifths of roads are paved.
