Fizi (district)

Fizi is one of the eight districts in Sud-Kivu Province , Democratic Republic of the Congo . It meets the Sud-Kivu districts of Uvira , Mwenga and Shabunda in the north, and Lake Tanganyika in the east and borders the provinces of Katanga in the south and Maniema in the west.

Swahili is used as the predominant language in the district .

geography

The Fizi district is located in the very south of the Sud-Kivu Province, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika .

Administrative division

There are the following municipal authorities within the Fizi district :

N'Gangya
Lie
M'tambala
Tangani'a
Itombwe

Cities

Baraka is the largest city in Fizi District; it consists of the three municipalities of Baraka, Katanga and Kalundja.
Fizi is the district capital.

history

The region has a long history of independence from Kinshasa . In 1967 , Laurent-Désiré Kabila founded the maquis liberation movement in Fizi . The city is also the birthplace of his son and current President Joseph Kabila . During the Second Congo War , the city of Fizi was fought over by numerous armed groups for a long time.

politics

The Fizi district is represented in the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by three MPs:

Amy Ambatobe ( UDPS / TSHISEKEDI )
Celestin Anzuluni ( independent )
Jean Kevin Jemsi (PANADER, Parti national pour la démocratie et la République )

Individual evidence

^ "Anatomy & History of the Zaire-Congo Crises" ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja , usafricaonline.com, November 19, 1996 @1@ 2
↑ "Background Brief on the Current Situation in Kivu" ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , IRIN , September 10, 1997 (hosted by africaaction.org); "Thousands of Civilians victims of atrocities in the DRC" , Amnesty International , November 23, 1998; and "DR Congo: Complex Emergency Situation Report # 4 (FY 2004)" , United States Agency for International Development , August 20, 2004 (hosted by reliefweb.int) @1@ 2

Web links

Territoire de Fizi-Itombwe ou le pays de Babembe , fizi-itombwe.com
Rapport de L'Atelier de Reflexion sur les Resources Locales et la Dynamique du Developpement Rural Dans Le Territoire de Fizi - Itombwe , report of seminar held 19-21 February 2006
Map of Sud-Kivu
Map of Sud-Kivu of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA )

[1] "Anatomy & History of the Zaire-Congo Crises" ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja , usafricaonline.com, November 19, 1996 @1@ 2

[2] "Background Brief on the Current Situation in Kivu" ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , IRIN , September 10, 1997 (hosted by africaaction.org); "Thousands of Civilians victims of atrocities in the DRC" , Amnesty International , November 23, 1998; and "DR Congo: Complex Emergency Situation Report # 4 (FY 2004)" , United States Agency for International Development , August 20, 2004 (hosted by reliefweb.int) @1@ 2