Crocodile hunting wanes but legends live on in DR Congo

Mbandaka, Dr Congo (AFP) April 29, 2024

The fearsome slender-snouted crocodile can make torch lights explode just with its eyes - so the legend goes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Along the Congo River, such myths stay with the Banunu fishermen, even if their traditions and livelihoods are not what they once were. Michel Koko, known as Lebe, 52, has been a fisherman for 10 years following in his father's footsteps.