Pweto Airport is an airport serving

Pweto Pweto is a town in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the administrative center of Pweto Territory. The town was the scene of a decisive battle in December 2000 during the Second Congo War which resulted ...

, a town in 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 ...

. Pweto is on the northernmost corner of

Lake Mweru Lake Mweru (also spelled ''Mwelu'', ''Mwero'') is a freshwater lake on the longest arm of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo. Located on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, it makes up of the total length of th ...

, and on the border with

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. The airport is north of the town. It is new, replacing the previous dirt runway to the west of Pweto. It was built by Australian company Mawson West in 2012–2013 to serve its proposed copper mine to the east at

Kapulo The Kapulo mine is a cassiterite mine and a planned copper mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located near a village of the same name. In 2007 one of the two remaining full FARDC brigades in Katanga was stationed in Pweto Terri ...

. After construction of the runway, Mawson put the mining plans on hold due to low copper prices, and was subsequently acquired and taken private.

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Airports in Haut-Katanga Province {{DRCongo-airport-stub

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