The provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were divided into 26 districts . Those in turn were divided into territories or communes .
7-734: Haut-Lomami District was a district of the pre-2015 Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The district dates back to the days of the Belgian Congo . At its greatest extent it roughly corresponded to the northern part of the current Lualaba Province and to the present Haut-Lomami Province. The original four provinces of the Belgian Congo had considerable autonomy, but in 1933 they were reorganized into six provinces, named after their capitals, and
14-518: A whole. On 11 July 1960, a few days after the Congo Republic had gained independence, the province of Katanga seceded as an independent state. In November 1961 the northern portion was reconquered by the national government and made the province of Nord-Katanga. On 21 January 1963 the remainder of Katanga was reconquered and divided into the provinces of Lualaba and Katanga Oriental. Nord-Katanga, Lualaba and Katanga Oriental were merged back into
21-554: The Minister for Decentralization, Denis Kalume Numbi , presented a bill for Decentralization in the National Assembly. The subsequent debate turned up a variety of issues that first had to be addressed with changes to related laws. In an October 2010 conclave of the ruling AMP coalition, it was proposed to revise Article 226, which calls for the creation of 26 provinces out of the current 11, in order to allow more time for
28-419: The central government assumed more control. Katanga became Elisabethville Province . The number of districts in the colony was reduced to 15. Elisabethville Province was divided into Lualaba District in the west, and Tanganika District and Haut-Katanga District in the east. By 1955 Lualaba had been greatly reduced in size, with the northern part of the district split off as Haut-Lomami District and part of
35-469: The east transferred to Luapula-Moero District . A 1955–1957 map shows Haut-Lomami District bordered by Lulua District and Kabinda District to the north, Tanganika District to the northeast., Luapula-Moero District to the southeast, Lualaba District to the south and Portuguese territories to the west. The area was 163,300 square kilometres (63,100 sq mi) out of a total of 496,700 square kilometres (191,800 sq mi) for Katanga province as
42-532: The province of Katanga on 28 December 1966. In 2015 Haut-Lomami Province was formed from Haut-Lomami district, whose town of Kamina was elevated to capital city of the new province. Districts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The 2006 constitution planned to convert many of the districts into provinces under a decentralization program. However, progress was slow. In October 2007
49-413: The transition. In September 2011 the position of "Minister of Decentralization" was abolished. The provinces of Maniema, Nord-Kivu and Sud-Kivu were not divided into districts. Those three provinces and all other districts were divided into territories. Most provinces also included cities, which were independent of the districts; in turn those were divided into communes. Districts and cities, other than
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