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Monday March 6, 2023 | Mid-term holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday March 24, 2023 | Day of National Heroe, Joseph Kasa-Vubu | Events, celebrations... | |
Thursday April 6, 2023 | Optional holiday | Secular holiday | |
Friday April 7, 2023 | Easter holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday April 24, 2023 | Easter holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Monday May 1, 2023 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday | |
Wednesday May 17, 2023 | National liberation Day | Secular holiday | |
Wednesday June 21, 2023 | Tour du Congo | Sports events | |
Friday June 30, 2023 | Independence Day | National Day | |
Saturday July 1, 2023 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Friday July 28, 2023 | Francophonie Games | Sports events | |
Friday July 28, 2023 | Foire internationale de Kinshasa (FIKIN) | Tradeshows | |
Tuesday August 1, 2023 | Parents Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday September 4, 2023 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday March 6, 2023
School holidays :
Day of National Heroe, Joseph Kasa-Vubu
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Friday March 24, 2023
Culture : The first President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) from 1960 until 1965.
Optional holiday
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Thursday April 6, 2023
Secular holiday : Celebrates the foundation of Kimbanguism, a Christian new religious movement professed by the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by His special envoy Simon Kimbangu
Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday April 7, 2023
School holidays :
Easter holiday (end)
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Monday April 24, 2023
School holidays :
Labor Day/May Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
National liberation Day
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Wednesday May 17, 2023
Secular holiday : Day of the seizure of power by the AFDL, release of the mobutism
Tour du Congo
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Wednesday June 21, 2023
Sports events : 2023 edition NOT confirmed
Independence Day
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Friday June 30, 2023
Secular holiday : Granted by Belgium on June 30, 1960 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Saturday July 1, 2023
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Francophonie Games
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Friday July 28, 2023
Sports events : lasts 10 days -- in Kinshasa
Foire internationale de Kinshasa (FIKIN)
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Friday July 28, 2023
Tradeshows : Foire Internationale des Entrepreneurs 2023 edition not confirmed
Parents Day
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Tuesday August 1, 2023
Secular holiday :
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday September 4, 2023
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