Three days of national mourning have been declared in DR Congo and the president has told state agencies to assist the affected families and start rebuilding damaged infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo Félix Tshisekedi says he will cut short his trip to the US, where he is attending the US-Africa leaders summit, after floods killed more than 120 people in Kinshasa.
In a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the summit, President Tshisekedi blamed the floods on climate change, the AFP news agency and the BBC report.