Likati is a town in the
Aketi Territory
Aketi Territory is a territory in the Bas-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The administrative capital is located at Aketi. The territory borders Bondo Territory to the north, Buta Territory to the east, Basoko Territor ...
of
Bas-Uélé Province
Bas-Uélé (French for "Lower Uélé") is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Bas-Uélé, Haut-Uélé, Ituri, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former ...
in the north of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
(DRC).
Location
Likati is on the N4 road from
Buta to
Bondo.
The
Likati River, a tributary of the
Rubi River
The Rubi River () is a left tributary of the Itimbiri River, which forms where the Rubi joins the Likati River. Course
The Rubi River originates in the southeast of the Bas-Uélé province, then flows west until it meets the Likati near Djamba.
Th ...
flows in a southerly direction past the east of the town.
Health
Likati was the site of an outbreak of
Ebola
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after in ...
virus disease in 2017. According to the
World Health Organization
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, it is situated in the remote, isolated and hard-to-reach northern part of DRC, with limited transport and communication networks.
Transport
Public transport
The
Vicicongo line
Chemins de fer des Uele (Uele Railways or Vicicongo line) is a narrow-gauge line in the north east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was built between 1924 and 1937 as a portage railway bypassing Congo River rapids.
Route
The line ru ...
built by the ''
Société des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux du Congo
The ''Société des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux du Congo'' (), known as CVC or Vicicongo, was a railway company that operated the narrow gauge Vicicongo line and provided trucking services in the northeast Belgian Congo, and then in the Democratic Rep ...
'' from
Aketi via
Komba reached Likati from the west on January 1, 1927.
The line running north from Likati to
Bondo via
Libogo was opened in September the same year. The last train ran probably 2001.
Fahrplan Center
Retrieved 2018-03-21.
Air transport
There is an airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...
with grass landing strip
In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. Runways may be a human-made surface (often asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (grass, dirt, gravel, ic ...
, owned by the Protestant Church
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.
Following OpenStreetMap
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, there is also a helicopter landing field on the football field in front of the Church of the town of Likati.
Road traffic
The RN4 crosses the town and district of Likati from north to south. West of Likati the RN4 crosses the Likati River over a bridge.
References
Sources
*
See also
* 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
On 11 May 2017, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having one Ebola-related death.
As of 8 June 2017, there were five confirmed cases and three probable cases. Of these, four surv ...
Populated places in Bas-Uélé
Communes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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