Tangani'a is a collectivity located in the

Fizi Territory Fizi is a territory in the south of Sud-Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering the South Kivu territories of Uvira, Mwenga and Shabunda to the north, Lake Tanganyika or Tanzania in the east, and the provinces Katanga in the ...

Sud-Kivu Province South Kivu (''Jimbo la Kivu Kusini'' in Swahili), (french: Sud-Kivu) is one of 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Bukavu. History South Kivu Province was created from Sud-Kivu District in 1989, when the exist ...

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. In the Bembe language (''Kibembe'') Tangani'a means

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, which is the name of the major lake next to the collectivity. The main town of the Tangani'a collectivity is Mbo' ko located alongside Lake Tanganyika. In this part of Fizi Territory the largest group of the

Bembe people The Bembe (''Babembe'') are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania. It is a sub-ethnic group of the Mongo ethnic group. In 1991, the Bembe population of the DRC was estimated to ...

are the Banyan'gangya tribe, who are also found in the collectivity of N'gangya, the largest of the 5 collectivities of the Fizi Territory. The main economic activity in Tangani'a is

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and

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. The place is very behind in terms of development due to the isolation of the Fizi Territory since the independence of the Congo. The type of public servants you may find there are primary and secondary teachers, some prosecutors,

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s, local government agents and spies. More than 90% of the population are unemployed. The Congolese government cannot do much in the territory due to ongoing instability in the eastern part of the DRC.

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{{Reflist Lake Tanganyika Populated places in South Kivu