Tanganyika (Province)

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Tanganyika
Bas-Uele Équateur Haut-Katanga Haut-Lomami Haut-Uele Ituri Kasaï Kasaï-Central Kasaï-Oriental Kinshasa Kongo Central Kwango Kwilu Lomami Lualaba Mai-Ndombe Maniema Mongala Nord-Kivu Nord-Ubangi Sankuru Sud-Kivu Sud-Ubangi Tanganyika Tshopo Tshuapamap
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country Congo Democratic RepublicDemocratic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo
Provincial capital Kalemie
National language Kiswahili
surface 134,940 km²
population 3,211,040 (2015)
Population density 22.5
ISO 3166-2 CD-TA

Tanganyika is a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with around 3.0 million inhabitants (as of 2015) . The main town of Tanganyika is Kalemie .

geography

Tanganyika landscape

Tanganyika is located in the southeast of the DR Congo. It borders in the east on Lake Tanganyika , on which the capital Kalemie is located, in the southeast on Zambia , in the south on Haut-Katanga , in the south-west on Haut-Lomami , in the north-west on Lomami and in the north on Maniema and Sud-Kivu .

The Lake Tanganyika , the second deepest lake in the world, limits the province in the east.

history

After the independence of the DR Congo in 1960, the area of ​​today's Tanganyika 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 Tanganyika 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 Tanganyika was elevated to a province.

Administrative division

The Tanganyika Province is divided into the following six territories:

population

The province is home to the Baluba of Katanga. In addition to the Baluba, a large number of minorities live in Tanganyika, including Binga , Holoholo , Hemba , Lumbu , Ngugangu and Tabwa . There are ethnic conflicts between the Baluba and the pygmy people of the Twa that go back to the 1960s and repeatedly resulted in deaths and displacement between 2013 and 2017.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cellule d`Analyses the Power indicator Développement (CAID): Province de Tanganyika. 2016, accessed July 6, 2017 .
  2. ^ AFP (New Vision): Bantus, Pygmies sign peace deal DR Congo. 2017, accessed July 6, 2017 .