Dekese Territory is an administrative area of Kasai province of the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

. The administrative center is the town of

Dekese Dekese is a community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the right bank of the Lukenie River. It is the administrative center of the Dekese territory of Kasai province. History Dekese was founded as a colonial post by Alexandre Delcomm ...

. The territory is isolated. Roads are impassable and radio reception is very poor. The territory suffers from continued communal conflicts. In 2010, of 176 such conflicts reported in Kasaï Occidental province, 38 were in Dekese Territory. In May 2011, after the former governor of

Kasai Occidental Kasai or Kasaï may refer to: Places Congo * Congo-Kasaï, one of the four large provinces of Belgian Congo * Kasaï District, in the Kasai-Occidental province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Kasai Province, one of the provinces ...

had been removed from office and a few days before the election of his successor, 40 soldiers arrived in Dekese, first in the town and then spreading out into the territory. They committed abuses including arbitrary arrests, looting and rape of women and minors. The purpose seemed to be to disrupt the elections.

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Populated places in Kasaï Province Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo fr:Dekese {{DRCongo-geo-stub