Mambasa Territory is an administrative area in the

Ituri Province Ituri Province ( in Swahili) is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Ituri, Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the subdividing of the former Orientale ...

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 ...

. The headquarters is in the town of

Mambasa Mambasa is a town in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the headquarters of Mambasa Territory. Geography Mambasa is a locality located on national road number 4 (RN4) 174 km west of the provincial capital Bunia Buni ...

. Mambasa Territory is threatened with deforestation due to illegal forestry to meet high demand for lumber by the bordering countries of Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Kenya, as well as to slash and burn cultivation and growing demand for fuel-wood by large numbers of immigrants from the east.

Towns and villages

* Nia Nia

Divisions

Administrative divisions are: * Bombo Chiefdom * Bandaka Chiefdom * Babila-Babombi Chiefdom * Mambasa Chiefdom * Walese-Dese Chiefdom * Walese-Karo Chiefdom * Bakwanza Chiefdom

Politics

Mambasa Territory is represented in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

by two deputies: *Jefferson Abdallah ( PPRD) *Grégoire Lusenge (RCD/K-ML)

References

Territories of Ituri Province {{DRCongo-geo-stub