This is the 5th time that Pope Francis has traveled to Africa.
The pontiff is currently visiting the capital of the DRC before going to South Sudan.
He celebrated a mass there in front of more than a million people gathered on the tarmac of the capital's military airport.
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Pope Francis pleads for reconciliation in a country victims of violence, in particular in the east, in Kivu where the armed group M23 has reappeared.
This violence prevented him from traveling to Goma.