The city of Kinshasa is a megalopolis of more than 12 million inhabitants that has not adapted to the population explosion of the last 30 years. One of the serious consequences is the absence of binding urban planning standards in terms of construction and land use, with the result that many households are settling under the Very High Voltage (VHV) power lines that supply the city, in defiance of the 25m corridor recommended by the Electricity National Company (S.N.EL). Research undertaken since 2015 has established on the one hand a 100 m right-of-way on both sides of the line and revealed on the other hand that more cases of epilepsy, cancers, rheumatism and impaired eyesight are found in households living closest to these lines compared to national statistics, mainly in places where the magnetic fields are higher than 0.400 μT.
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