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Haut-Uélé Province
Haut-Uélé (French for "Upper Uélé") is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Haut-Uélé, Bas-Uélé, Ituri, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Orientale province. Haut-Uélé was formed from the Haut-Uélé district whose town of Isiro was elevated to capital city of the new province. Administration The principal communities are Niangara, Dungu, Faradje, Watsa, Rungu, Isiro and Wamba. The capital of the province is the town of Isiro. Territories are * Dungu * Faradje * Niangara * Rungu * Wamba * Watsa Watsa is a community in the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, administrative center of the Watsa Territory. It is served by Watsa Airport, a grass airstrip south of the town. Watsa was the location of the VI battalion ... Villages are * Bagbele References Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{DRCongo-geo-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Article 2 of the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo divides the country into the capital city of Kinshasa and 25 named provinces. It also gives the capital the status of a province. Therefore, in many contexts Kinshasa is regarded as the 26th province. List History When Belgium annexed the Belgian Congo as a colony in November 1908, it was initially organised into 22 districts. Ten western districts were administered directly by the main colonial government, while the eastern part of the colony was administered under two vice-governments: eight northeastern districts formed Orientale Province, and four southeastern districts formed Katanga. In 1919, the colony was organised into four provinces: * Congo-Kasaï (five southwestern districts), * Équateur (five northwestern districts), * Orientale Province and Katanga (previous vice-governments). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wamba, Haut-Uele
Wamba is a town in Haut-Uele province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that is the administrative centre of Wamba Territory. Location and people The area around Wamba consists of a rainforest-derived mosaic of dry, swamp and secondary forest with cultivated fields. Altitude is between and . Annual rainfall is around . Both Wamba and nearby Mungbere are inaccessible because of the very poor roads in the region. History The Apostolic Vicariate of Wamba was established in 1949 and was promoted to the Diocese of Wamba in 1959. During the Simba Rebellion, in December 1964 rebels held 250 white hostages in Wamba. Two mercenary rescue columns reached the town at the end of the year. They found that 28 whites had been brutally killed, mostly Belgians, including the Bishop Monsignor Joseph-Pierre Albert Wittebols. 121 whites were still alive, mainly Greeks who had provided cash and cooperated with the rebels in exchange for their lives. Today The town is home to a station of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watsa
Watsa is a community in the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, administrative center of the Watsa Territory. It is served by Watsa Airport, a grass airstrip south of the town. Watsa was the location of the VI battalion of the Force Publique in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1998 and 2000, co-circulating Marburg virus and Ravn virus caused 154 cases of Marburg virus disease and 128 deaths among illegal gold miners in Watsa and the nearby Durba Mine. In January and February 2011 the Lords Resistance Army attacked people in the territories of Dungu, Faradje, Niangara Niangara is a town in the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, lying on both sides of the Uele River. It is the headquarters of the Niangara Territory. The town has a hospital operated by Médecins Sans Frontières. As o ... and Watsa, causing 33,000 people to be displaced. They were slow to return due to the feeble response of government security forces. Climat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faradje
Faradje is a town in the Haut-Uele province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the administrative center of Faradje Territory. It lies on the Dungu River, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dungu River. It had a population of about 25,000 in 2009. It has dirt streets, a police station and a market. There is a Faradje Airport, small airstrip (code FZJK). It lies at an elevation of above sea level. History Lord's Resistance Army presence in the area On 25 December 2008, rebels in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), fleeing from a multinational military offensive, struck Faradje, killing 40 people. The LRA also attacked the villages of Doruma and Durba in the next two days, killing another 149 people. Most of the victims were women and children, who were cut into pieces. In January and February 2011 the Lord's Resistance Army again attacked people in the territories of Dungu Territory, Dungu, Faradje Territory, Faradje, Niangara Territory, Niangara and Watsa, causing 33,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niangara
Niangara is a town in the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, lying on both sides of the Uele River. It is the headquarters of the Niangara Territory. The town has a hospital operated by Médecins Sans Frontières. As of April 2010 the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo had a base in Niangara town. However, the peacekeepers had few troops and the roads in the area are poor, so they rarely leave the town. They have neither prevented nor responded to a series of attacks in the territory by the Lord's Resistance Army The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a Christian extremist organization operating in Central Africa and East Africa. Its origins were in the War in Uganda (1986–1994), Ugandan insurgency (1986–1994) against Yoweri Museveni, during which Jo .... In December 2010 a group of 600 women, children and elderly of the Mbororo people set up camp on the edge of town. They had been driven out of a nearby district by the army, and had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haut-Uélé District
Haut-Uele District (, ) was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was formed from part of Uele District in 1912. It roughly corresponded in area to the present Haut-Uélé province. Location Haut-Uele District (Upper Uele District) was named after the Uele River, and covers the upper part of the river basin. Belgian Congo The Haut-Uele District was created by an ''arrêté royal'' of 28 March 1912, which divided the Congo into 22 districts. A 1912 map shows that the former Uele District had been broken into the Haut-Uele and Bas-Uele (Lower Uele) districts. Haut-Uele was bordered by French territory to the north, British territory to the east, Ituri and Stanleyville districts to the south and Bas-Uele to the west. The Haut-Uele District became part of the Orientale Province created in 1913. Kilo-Moto is a region in the far northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where gold was discovered in the Ituri River by gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Okapi
Radio Okapi is a radio network that operates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On an annual budget of USD$4.5 million, a staff of 200 provide news and information to the entire urban population of the DRC. Radio Okapi provides programming in French and in the four national languages of Congo: Lingala, Kituba, Swahili and Tshiluba, History Radio Okapi was created by the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) and the Swiss NGO Fondation Hirondelle. The agreement between MONUC and the Congolese government foresaw the creation of a radio network to inform the Congolese population of the MONUC's efforts. MONUC and the Fondation Hirondelle submitted a plan in 2001 to the United Nations, and the radio network went live on 25 February 2002. The station takes its name from the endangered Okapi, the elusive mammal native to the rainforest of northern Congo. In 2011 ''The Economist'' said that Radio Okapi was "one of Africa’s most admirably indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orientale Province
Orientale Province () is one of the former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its predecessors the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo. It went through a series of boundary changes between 1898 and 2015, when it was divided into smaller units. The District of Orientale Province was created from Stanley Falls District on 15 July 1898. The district was expanded to become Orientale Province in 1913. It was divided in 1933 into Costermansville Province, Costermansville (later Kivu) and Stanleyville Province. Stanleyville Province was renamed Orientale Province from 1947 to 1963, when it was broken up into Kibali-Ituri, Uélé and Haut-Congo provinces. Orientale Province was reconstituted in 1966. Between 1971 and 1997 it was called Haut-Zaïre, then it returned to the name of Orientale. The province contained the Bas-Uele District, Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele District, Haut-Uele, Ituri District, Ituri and Tshopo District, Tshopo districts. These were elevated to province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tshopo
Tshopo is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. It is situated in the north central part of the country on the Tshopo River, for which it is named. Tshopo, Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, and Ituri provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Orientale province. Tshopo was formed from the Tshopo district and the independently administered city of Kisangani which retained its status as a provincial capital. The 2020 population was estimated to be 2,829,700. History From 1963 to 1966, the area was constituted as the province of Haut-Congo (Upper Congo). It was merged into Orientale Province in 1966 as, separately, the District of Tshopo and the city of Kisangani. The Presidents (later governors) of Haut-Congo were: * 1963 – 26 June 1963: Georges Grenfell (b. 1908) * 26 June 1963 – 1964: Paul Isombuma * 1964 – August 1964: François Aradjabu * August 1964 – 5 Nov 1966: Jean Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
