Haut-Lomami
Haut-Lomami | |
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country | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Provincial capital | Kamina |
National language | Kiswahili |
surface | 108,204 km² |
population | 2,957,000 (2015) |
Population density | 27.3 |
ISO 3166-2 | CD-HL |
Haut-Lomami (German also Ober-Lomami ) is a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with around 3 million inhabitants. The capital of Haut-Lomami is Kamina .
geography
Haut-Lomami is located in the south-east of the country and is bordered by Lomami in the north-west, Tanganyika in the north- east, Haut-Katanga in the south-east and Lualaba in the south-west .
history
After the independence of the DR Congo in 1960, the area of today's Haut-Lomami Province belonged to the secession state Katanga , which was reintegrated into the motherland in 1963 and formed the Katanga Province . According to the administrative reallocation of the country, which was provided for in the constitution of 2005, the province of Katanga was to be divided and the district of Haut-Lomami and three other districts of Katanga were to receive provincial status. As one of 26 provinces, the area should have its own administration and its own regional parliament. In January 2011, however, this reform was practically canceled by a controversial constitutional amendment by President Joseph Kabila. In the end, it was implemented in 2015 and Haut-Lomami was elevated to a province.