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Kamituga Mine
Kamituga is a mining town in the Mwenga Territory, South Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the east of the Bulega mining region and the western slope of the Mitumba mountain range. As of 2012, it had an estimated population of 13,995. History Gold deposits in the Kamituga region were first discovered in the 1920s with the discovery of alluvial gold in the Luliaba, Mobale, Kahushimira, Kamakundu and Idoka rivers, but no commercial gold exploitation really had started until the 1930s when Belgian company ''Minière des Grands Lacs Africains'' (MGL) or Great Lakes Mining Company started commercial gold exploitation. From there MGL started to do a large recruitment campaign in the local Orientale Province and later in 1932 the Costermansville Province. Throughout the 1960s artisanal mining started to gradually expand in Kamituga. The company's workers realized they could sell gold in an informal trading system, instead of handing it over to the ... [...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] |
Armed Forces Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: Forces armées de la république démocratique du Congo ARDC is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FARDC was rebuilt patchily as part of the peace process which followed the end of the Second Congo War in July 2003. The majority of FARDC members are land forces, but it also has a small air force and an even smaller navy. In 2010–2011 the three services may have numbered between 144,000 and 159,000 personnel. In addition, there is a presidential force called the Republican Guard, but it and the Congolese National Police (PNC) are not part of the Armed Forces. The government in the capital city Kinshasa, the United Nations, the European Union, and bilateral partners which include Angola, South Africa, and Belgium are attempting to create a viable force with the ability to provide the Democratic Republic of Congo with stability and security. However, thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congolese Rally For Democracy
The Congolese Rally for Democracy (french: Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie; abbreviated RCD), also known as the Rally for Congolese Democracy, is a political party and a former rebel group that operated in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was supported by the government of Rwanda, and was a major armed faction in the Second Congo War (1998-2003). It became a social liberal political party in 2003. Development In 1997 Laurent-Désiré Kabila was installed as President of the DRC following the victory by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (ADFL) in the First Congo War, with heavy support from the governments of Uganda and Rwanda. However, the ethnic tensions in eastern DRC did not disappear and Kabila grew wary of Rwandan influence in his administration. Thousands of Hutu militants who had taken part in the Rwandan genocide and been forced to flee into the DRC maintained a low intensity war with the invadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Of Democratic Forces For The Liberation Of Congo
The Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFLC; french: Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre; AFDL) was a coalition of Rwandan, Ugandan, Burundian, and Congolese dissidents, disgruntled minority groups, and nations that toppled Mobutu Sese Seko and brought Laurent-Désiré Kabila to power in the First Congo War. Although the group was successful in overthrowing Mobutu, the alliance fell apart after Kabila did not agree to be dictated by his foreign backers, Rwanda and Uganda, which marked the beginning of the Second Congo War in 1998. Background By the middle of 1996, the situation in eastern Zaire was simmering with tension. Following the Rwandan genocide in 1994, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hutus had fled across the border into Zaire where they settled in large refugee camps. Many of those responsible for the genocide, the former Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) and ''interahamwe'' militia, used the anonymity o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwandan Patriotic Front
The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF–Inkotanyi, french: Front patriotique rwandais, FPR) is the ruling political party in Rwanda. Led by President Paul Kagame, the party has governed the country since its armed wing defeated government forces, winning the Rwandan Civil War in 1994. Since 1994, the party has ruled Rwanda using tactics which have been characterised as authoritarian. Elections are manipulated in various ways, which include banning opposition parties, arresting or assassinating critics, and electoral fraud. History Rwandese Alliance for National Unity Following the overthrow of Idi Amin in 1979, the Tutsi refugee intelligentsia in Uganda set up the region's first political refugee organization, the Rwandese Alliance for National Unity (RANU), to discuss a possible return to Rwanda. Though primarily a forum for intellectual discussion, it became militant after Milton Obote's election of 1980 resulted in many Tutsi refugees joining Yoweri Museveni in fighting the Ugan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namoya Mine
Namoya Mine is an open pit gold mine in Maniema province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which started operations in 2016. Production has been disrupted by repeated attacks from rebel militias. The original Canadian owner sold to a Chinese consortium in 2020 due to security concerns. Location The Namoya Mine is in Kabambare Territory of Maniema, just south of the South Kivu border and north of the RP1121 highway. It is south of Mount Mutumba in the Itombwe Mountains. Namoya Airport and Namoya towm are to the south of the mine. The Kama River flows through Namoya town. The mine is at the south end of the Twangiza-Namoya gold belt, also called the Maniema-South Kivu Gold Belt, which stretches from South Kivu into Maniema. The belt extends from Twangiza southwest to Namoya Mine. Banro Corporation of Canada has a exploration permit around Namoya with four main deposits: Mount Mwendamboko, Muviringu, Kakula and Namoya Summit. The mine is on the western margin of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugushwa Mine
Lugushwa Mine is a potential open pit gold mine in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Location Lugushwa Mine is in Mwenga Territory, South Kivu. The project area is to the northwest of highway RN2, which runs in a northeast-southwest direction from Kamituga to Kasongo in Maniema province. The project is south of Lugushwa Airport. The site covers of mountainous terrain with deep valleys. The climate is generally hot and humid all year. The site is the Twangiza-Namoya gold belt, also called the Maniema-South Kivu Gold Belt, which stretches from South Kivu into Maniema. The belt extends from Twangiza southwest to Namoya in Maniema. The project is on the western margin of the Kibaran Mobile Belt. Gold mineralization is found in disseminated arsenopyrite and pyrite in quartz veins. History Alluvial gold was found at Lugushwa in the 1920s. Between 1957 and 1963 the Lugushwa region was explored and mined for alluvial gold. After that, until the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twangiza Mine
Twangiza Mine is an open pit gold mine in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which started operations in 2012. Production has been disrupted by attacks from rebel militias. Location Twangiza Mine is in Mwenga Territory, South Kivu. It is about south of Bukavu, east of the RN2 highway and north of the Itombwe Mountains. The mine is at the north end of the Twangiza-Namoya gold belt, also called the Maniema-South Kivu Gold Belt, which stretches from South Kivu into Maniema. The belt extends from Twangiza southwest to Namoya in Maniema. Geology The eastern section of the Twangiza property is part of the Itombwe synclinorium, a fold that stretches south from Twangiza. It contains weakly metamorphized Neoproterozoic sediments, mostly mudstone, trending north–south. Near the main and north sections porphyritic sills from thick have intruded into the Neoproterozoic sediments. They have been extensively altered by hydrothermal circulation, but m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simba Rebellion
The Simba rebellion, also known as the Orientale revolt, was a regional uprising which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1963 and 1965 in the wider context of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War. The rebellion, located in the east of the country, was led by the followers of Patrice Lumumba, who had been ousted from power in 1960 by Joseph Kasa-Vubu and Joseph-Désiré Mobutu and subsequently killed in January 1961 in Katanga. The rebellion was contemporaneous with the Kwilu rebellion led by fellow Lumumbist Pierre Mulele in central Congo. The Simba rebels were initially successful and captured much of eastern Congo, proclaiming a "people's republic" at Stanleyville. However, the insurgency suffered from a lack of organization and coherence, as well as tensions between the rebel leadership and its international allies of the Eastern Bloc. When the Congolese government launched a number of major counter-offensives from late 1964, spearheaded by battle-harde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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