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  Zaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Aug 1998 - Rebellion in the eastern provinces.
30 Jun 1960 Autonomous province of the Congo republic.
of Katanga and proclamation of the province of North Katanga.
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 Kasai, former province, Congo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Between the Kasai and the Sankuru rivers the Kuba kingdom of the Shongo people existed from the early 17th cent.
In the south of the province were the constantly warring Luba and Bena Lulua peoples.
This ethnic conflict was partly responsible for the secession (Aug., 1960) of the Baluba-dominated Mining State of South Kasai, headed by Albert Kalonji, who proclaimed himself king of South Kasai.
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Bas-Congo Province: Yema (Boma district); Kimpangu, Kindopolo and Songololo (Cataractes district); Kasangulu, Mvululu and Tampa (Lukaya district); and Ango Ango (Matadi district).
Equateur Province: Basankusu, Bolomba, Bolongo, Bomongo, Boso-Semodja, Edugulu-Libaha, Losombo and Mondjo (Equateur district); Mbandaka (Mbandake district); Akula and Lisala (Mongala district); Businga, Gbadolite, Karawa and Popolo (Ubangi North district); Budjala, Gemena and Libenge (Ubangi South district); Anzi, Befori, Boende, Bokungu, Bomandja, Bongoi, Bulukutu, Ene, Ikeal, Maboka, Monde, Mondombe, Pombo, Yalusaka and Yayenga (Tshuapa district).
Eastern Kasai Province: Gandajika, Kabinda, Kamana, Katako-Kombe, Kileta, Kitenge, Lubap, Senteri, Tangala and Tunda (Kabinda district); Mbuji-Mayi (Mbuji-Maji district); Lusambo and Pumbu (Sankuru district); Kadimadiba and Miabi (Tshilenge district).
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 Jinbo - Kawazoe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yûsho was the son of Kaihô Tsunachika, a senior retainer of the Asai of Ômi Province.
Kagemune was born in Kii Province and came to serve the Hôjô of Sagami Province.
Former Kasai retainers and farmers rioted in 1591 against Kimura Hidetoshi and his son Shigemasa (whom Toyotomi Hideyoshi had placed in control of the Kasai lands) and had to be suppressed by Date Masamune.
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 Central Files Congo State Department UPA LexisNexis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kasai was about to become the scene of a major ethnic confrontation between Lulua and Luba elements.
The major event leading to the move by the Lumumbists to establish themselves at Stanleyville, the area of Lumumba's strongest support, was the recommendation by the UN Credentials Committee on November 10 to seat the delegation to the UN appointed by Mobutu.
Reducing the size of the provinces merely shifted the focus of ethnic conflict to a smaller arena, a phenomenon further encouraged by the sheer arbitrariness of their boundaries and the emergence of several bitterly contested areas.
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 Search Results for "kasai"
Kasai, former province, Congo, (kasi´) (KEY), former province, c.124,000 sq mi (321,160 sq km), S central Congo (Kinshasa).
Kasai, river, Angola, or Cassai, river, c.1,100 mi (1,800 km) long, rising in central Angola, S central Africa, flowing E, N, and NW through W Congo (Kinshasa) to...
Arabs in the Kasai region were defeated in 1894.
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 Wikipedia free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bas-Congo is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It is the only province with a coastline, and its regional capital is Matadi.
The province borders Kinshasa to the north-east, and Bandundu province to the east.
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 Kasai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the Kasai River in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kasai province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, now divided into eastern and western districts
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kasai   (96 words)

  
 Bandundu - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In a report detailing the situation of the expellees in the provinces of Bandundu and Kasai Occidental, OCHA said that the improvement in the humanitarian...
The western provinces of Bas-Congo and Bandundu were chosen as "priority intervention areas in view of their high poverty level" the Fund said.
Areas of the provinces of Bas-Congo and Bandundu were chosen as priority intervention areas because of their high poverty level and because these two provinces...
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 Provinces of Congo (Kinshasa)
From 1913 onwards the districts outside Katanga were regrouped into three provinces, which became headed by vice-governors general, enjoying a certain degree of self-government, by 1924.
After the military coup of Mobutu (25 Nov 1965) the power of the central government was restored and the number of provinces decreased to 12 in Apr 1966 and 8 in Dec 1966 (plus the city of Kinshasa respectively).
province of Kasai (not of Congo) and proclaim the
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 The Democratic Republic of the CONGO
Eastwards, through the provinces of Katanga, South Kivu, North Kivu and the Oriental Province, the DRC is linked to Swahili, French and English speaking countries - Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.
Northwards, through the Oriental Province and Equator, the DRC is related to Arabic and French speaking countries - Sudan and the central African Republic.
Westwards (through the provinces of Lower Congo, Kinshasa, Bandundu and Equator Province) the DRC is open to more French speaking countries).
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 Democratic Republic of Congo Provinces
Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa)
It is doubtful whether this province will be accepted as legitimate by the central government." Recent news reports speak of events in Ituri province, and of Bunia as its capital.
Province: Kinshasa is not a province, but a ville neutre (neutral city).
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 EJAB 9: Preface
Kasai is the former province, in the south central of the Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) with Luluabourg (Kananga Malandi wa Nshinga) as its capital.
Situated between the Kasai and the Sankuru rivers, the Kuba kingdom of the Shongo people existed from the early 17th century.
The Kasai Oriental (formerly South Kasai) province, with Mbuji Mayi as its capital, is the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s diamond center and is geographically located in the southeastern part of the country.
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 1999-2000 DIARY OF EVENTS - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of CONGO - Jane's International Security News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The objective was reportedly to capture Gbadolite in the north, Kamina and Mbujimayi in Katanga Province and Lubumbashi in the south.
RCD guerrillas were reported to have captured Bene Dibele, eastern Kasai Province, in the south of the country.
Rwandan Hutu guerrillas and Mayi Mayi warriors captured Lemera, Sud Kivu Province, from the RCD; the town is strategically situated on the highway between Uvira and Bukavu.
www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/jwit/jwit010124_1_n.shtml   (6736 words)

  
 PR Newswire: Caledonia Announces the Acquisition of the Kananga Mineral Concession in the Kasai Province of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
PR Newswire: Caledonia Announces the Acquisition of the Kananga Mineral Concession in the Kasai Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo@ HighBeam Research
Caledonia Announces the Acquisition of the Kananga Mineral Concession in the Kasai Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo
The capital city of Kasai, Kananga, is situated on the western boundary of the Concession, and can be accessed by road, rail and air.
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 Minorities At Risk (MAR)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Luba of Kasai Province-Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
Tshisekedi has huge popular support in Kinshasa and Kasai province and his exclusion has created a rift among supporters and opponents of the Joseph Kabila government.
A rebellion, sparked by ethnic violence against Banyarwandans (Congolese Hutus and Tutsi) in the east and later led by Laurent Kabila, began in Zaire in the fall of 1996.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/drcluba.htm   (794 words)

  
 Congo, Democratic Republic of the
In September the military court in Likasi, Katanga Province, sentenced to death 13 soldiers found guilty of plotting to overthrow the Government; however, none of the soldiers were executed by year's end, and Minister of Human Rights Ntumba Luaba announced that the sentences would be commuted (see Section 1.e.).
In September in Likasi, Katanga Province, the Government appointed counsel for 77 defendants on trial in the military court for plotting a coup; however, the Government did not provide the defense lawyers, who were based in Kinshasa, with transportation to Likasi.
In the provinces of North and South Kivu, RCD rebels recruited children from the areas in which the operated, despite claims that they had stopped this practice (see Section 5).
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8322.htm   (17020 words)

  
 Memorandum of the UDSP about the new Kabila's High Commissioner in Kenya
Kyungu Wa Kumwanza then Governor of the copper province of Shaba (Katanga) initiated in 1992, with a tacit approval of President Mobutu and the Primer Minister Jean Nguz, an open campaign of hatred against the people originated from Kasai province who have settled in the province for several generations.
The outcome of this demonic plan was looting, rape and systematic killing on the spot of as many as 10.000 people and the eviction of hundred of thousands from their jobs and homes.
The toll of Kyungu's genocide plan was more or less 300.000 Kasai people displaced from Katanga to Zambia and Kasai province, more or less 10.000 people killed and more or less 30.000 people who died from starvation and disease.
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 Crazy Atheist Libertarian
In one of the worst prisons, Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison in the eastern province of Kasai Occidental, 34 of 320 prisoners died of symptoms related to malnutrition.
The United Nations found that malnutrition-related deaths were common in Matadi Prison in Lower Congo province and Kananga Prison in Western Kasai province.
At Mbandaka Prison in Equateur province, "the ribs of most of the inmates were clearly visible," the report said.
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 Missionhurst Missionaries at work in Africa
Finally, for several weeks he traveled by boat and on foot upriver on the Congo and Kasai Rivers through this immense, unknown and mysterious territory which was crossed by Stanley only just a few years before.
He arrived in Kasai Province, the heart of the country, and founded St. Joseph mission in Mikalayi.
Father Cambier worked in Kasai for twenty-five years and was instrumental in the founding of most large missions in that province.
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 Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
One faction is led by Patrice Lumumba who is Tetela, an ethnic group of Kasai province.
Newly appointed governor of Shaba Province Kyungu wa Kumwanza told a rally of 5000 supporters that he would not tolerate anyone trying to loot Lubumbashi in the wait for the advancing rebels.
Kabila then gave the population of eastern Kasai province the chance to elect their own leader.
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 monuc.org: Tension rising in Katanga province ::: 27/11/2003
Armed conflicts plague the northern part of the province while a disintegrating economy is driving the south deeper into poverty.
Meanwhile, reunification of the province is still marred by political and economic roadblocks.
In 1992 and 1993, Kasaians were victims of ethnic cleansing by the Mobutu regime in retaliation for the election of Etienne Tshisekedi as prime minister.
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 Patrice Emery Lumumba
Lumumba was born in the village of Onalua in Kasai province, Belgian Congo.
His two principal rivals, Moise Tshombe, who led the breakaway of the Katanga province, and Joseph Kasavubu, who later became the nation's president, both came from large, powerful tribes from which they derived their major support, giving their political movements a regional character.
In the confusion, the mineral-rich province of Katanga proclaimed secession.
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 AllRefer.com - Kasai, former province, Congo (Democratic Republic Of The Congo Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Kasai, former province, Congo (Democratic Republic Of The Congo Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Kasai, former province, Congo, Democratic Republic Of The Congo Political Geography
Kasai [kAs I ´] Pronunciation Key, former province, c.124,000 sq mi (321,160 sq km), S central Congo (Kinshasa).
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 Kananga - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tshikapa is 160 km (100 miles) southwest of Kananga, the main city of the Kasai Occidental province.
Tshikapa is 160km south-west of Kananga, the main city of the Kasai Occidental province.
The disaster occurred during the night of Sunday to Monday, said Andre-Claudel Lubaya, speaking from Kananga, capital of the Kasai Occidental province on the...
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 afrol News - Your Portal to Africa!
WHO on Tuesday had received reports of 7 deaths in an outbreak of suspected viral haemorrhagic fever in Ogooué Ivindo Province in the northeastern part of Gabon.
Also the Congolese Kasai Province has earlier been affected by Ebola, which mainly strikes in the tropical rainforest zones of Central Africa.
In one of the major outbreaks ever, in 1995, 315 cases of Ebola were registered in the Kasai town of Kikwit, of which 244 were fatal.
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 Congo, Democratic Republic of the
The front that separated government from antigovernment forces generally was stable, except in the province of Equateur, where government and rebel MLC troops fought running engagements along the Ubangi River.
On April 10, Muulwa, a farmer from the village of Habula in Walikale territory, North Kivu Province, was killed by RCD soldiers who had entered the village to investigate whether the residents were harboring Interahamwe soldiers.
In 1999 rebel forces stated that they would reduce their use of child soldiers, and the problem reportedly continued to diminish during the year; however, there were no reports that they generally demobilized child soldiers, and many child soldiers reportedly continued to serve in rebel armed forces.
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 Tshiluba language - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tshiluba is spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Kasaï Occidental and Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
There are significant dialect differences between the East Kasai Region (Baluba people) and the West Kasai Region (Bena Lulua people).
The Bantu word identified in June 2004 by Today's Translations, a British translation company, as the most untranslatable in the world: ilunga, in the Tshiluba tongue, means "a person ready to forgive any abuse the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".
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 nord kivu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nord - Kivu image:DCongoNorthKivu.png Nord - Kivu is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sud- Kivu image:DCongoSouthKivu.png Sud- Kivu is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This prompted army mutinies in Kinshasa and the Kivu provinces in the east.
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 monuc.org: Tension rising in Katanga province ::: 27/11/2003
Although tension has decreased in the past few years, there is a risk of flare-up especially during the pre-elections period when ethnicity may be exploited for political gain.
Another potential time-bomb is the province's worsening poverty linked to the demise of the Gecamines.
Although stringers for international media have budgets for transportation and communication expenses, most journalists in Lubumbashi survive on shoestring salaries that don't allow them to own cars or even take public transportation to confirm in person that their stories are accurate.
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