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Baraka also called "bala'a" is a town in the eastern Congolese province of South Kivu, on 
In 2014, the city drew attention as a pilot project for the Missing Maps project.
As of 2015, in Baraka there were no paved roads, no running water, and no electricity.
In October 2021 MONUSCO opened a base nearby that allowed 7,000 people to return. In February 2022 they created a temporary base north of Baraka to deal with
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. ...
. This is the main town of the Fizi Territory. Its population in late 2014 was around 120,000 and predominantly Swahili and Ebembe speaking. Other estimates give 90,000. The name of the city means "blessing" in Swahili.
In the 1960s, the city was at the center of cross-border Maoist insurgency started by Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila () (27 November 1939 – 18 January 2001) or simply Laurent Kabila ( US: ), was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who was the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 until his assassinatio ...
. It continued well until the 1980s. The population of the city considerably decreased during the Civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, during which the city was under control of the Rwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
-backed Rally for Congolese 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 ...
. After the end of the war, people started to return and take jobs, mainly in the trade.
In 2014, the city drew attention as a pilot project for the Missing Maps project.
As of 2015, in Baraka there were no paved roads, no running water, and no electricity.
In October 2021 MONUSCO opened a base nearby that allowed 7,000 people to return. In February 2022 they created a temporary base north of Baraka to deal with Mai-Mai
The term Mai-Mai or Mayi-Mayi refers to any kind of community-based militia group active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that is formed to defend local communities and territory against other armed groups. Most were formed to resis ...
attacks.
References
{{DRCongo-geo-stub Populated places in South Kivu Populated places on Lake Tanganyika