Palais du Peuple (Kinshasa)

[2][3][4][5] The structure (along with a sugar refinery built in Kisanga and destroyed in the Congo Civil War)[6] was constructed with an interest-free credit line of US$100 million [7] in cooperation with the People's Republic of China from 1975 to 1979, after being commissioned by President Mobutu Sese Seko following his visit to China in 1973.

[9] The site also includes the Kinshasa Martyrs' Stadium, contracted at the same time as the palace,[9] a FIFA-class venue[10] built by the Chinese in 1994.

[1] Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the DRC, had overthrown United States' ally Mobutu, who died in exile in Morocco.

After his assassination by a bodyguard in January 2001, Laurent-Désiré Kabila lay in state at the People's Palace for three days before being interred.

[13] On 19 January 2015, after appeals from opposition parties standing against Laurent-Désiré Kabila's son and elected president Joseph Kabila's proposed plan to delay the scheduled 2016 elections until after a burdensome national census had been held, protesters gathered in front of the People's Palace.