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19-521: The Lomami rises in the south of the country, near Kamina and the Congo– Zambezi divide . It flows north through Lubao , Tshofa  [ fr ] , Kombe , Bolaiti , Opala , and Irema before joining the Congo at Isangi . Henry Morton Stanley reached the confluence of the two rivers on 6 Jan. 1877, "the affluent Lumami, which Livingstone calls 'Young's river,' entered the great stream, by

38-749: A large military base in Kamina after the Second World War . The large base complex consisted of Base 1, an air base used for flying training, and Base 2, a paratroop training facility. From September 1953 to 1960, the Advanced Pilots' School of the Belgian Air Force operated some 60 North American Harvards from the base. When the Congo gained independence in June 1960, Belgium initially retained control of Kamina, under agreement with

57-581: A mouth 600 yards wide, between low banks densely covered with trees." In October 1889 M. Janssen, Governor-General of the Congo State, explored the Lomani river upstream from Isangi on the Ville de Bruxelles . After steaming for 116 hours he was stopped by rapids at a latitude of 4°27'2" S. The river has lent its name to a number of biological species , including the monkey Cercopithecus lomamiensis and

76-549: A secondary school that serves the expatriate community. It was founded in 1987 on the grounds of the French School, Lycée Français Blaise Pascal, which suspended operations in 1991 with a new French School starting in 2009. Katanga province has the highest rate of infant mortality in the world, with 184 of 1000 babies born expected to die before the age of five. The Congo Railway provides Katanga Province with limited railway service centered on Lubumbashi . Reliability

95-477: A wet and dry season. Rainfall is about 1,200 mm (49 in). The province was divided in 2015 into five successor provinces, based on the districts of Katanga at that time: The University of Lubumbashi , located in the northern part of Lubumbashi city, is the largest university in the province and one of the largest in the country. TESOL, the English Language School of Lubumbashi, is

114-487: Is an important part of the economy of Katanga province. Cobalt mining by individual contractors is also prevalent. A number of reasons have been advanced for the failure of the vast mineral wealth of the province to increase the overall standard of living . The local provincial budget was US$ 440 million in 2011. Lubumbashi , the mining capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a hub for many of

133-606: Is known as an important railway node; three lines of the DRC railways run from Kamina toward the north, west, and south-east. The main railway line, the operating sections of the Cape to Cairo Railway , links the city with Tenke and Lubumbashi to the south and Kabalo and Kindu to the northeast. It has two airports, one civil ( Kamina Airport ) and one military ( Kamina Base Airport ). It lies along National Road 1 (N1) and Regional Road 630 (R630). The Belgian Armed Forces established

152-549: The Societe Generale de Belgique practically controlled all of the mining in the province through Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK). This included uranium , radium , copper, cobalt , zinc , cadmium , germanium , manganese , silver , gold , and tin . In 1915, a deposit of pitchblende and other uranium minerals of a higher grade than had ever been found before anywhere in the world and higher than any found since were discovered at Shinkolobwe . The discovery

171-587: The 1890s, the province was beleaguered from the south by Cecil Rhodes ' Northern Rhodesia , and from the north by the Belgian Congo , the personal possession of King Leopold II of Belgium . Msiri , the King of Katanga, (no such title exist, Msiri is a title for local authority in area controlled by Kazembe) held out against both, but eventually Katanga was subsumed by the Belgian Congo. After 1900,

190-553: The Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika , Haut-Lomami , Lualaba , and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko when Congo was known as Zaire ), its official name was Shaba Province . Katanga's area encompassed 497,000 square kilometres (192,000 sq mi). Farming and ranching are carried out on the Katanga Plateau . The eastern part of

209-477: The Congo . Brassage is the process whereby fighters of the former DRC warring factions are brought together into new combined units. In 2019, the Governor of Haut-Lomami inaugurated the "Stade Joseph Kabila Kabange", a modern sports arena. The stadium was started in 2008, with 2 Million US dollars of funding from Katanga Province . After work on the stadium halted for nearly a decade, the Governor announced that

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228-752: The Congolese government, but in October 1960 control of the base was taken over by the United Nations. The base was never under Katangese control, although Katangese troops occupied the nearby town of Kaminaville. In early 1964, the UN handed over Kamina to the Congolese Armed Forces . It is now a 'brassage' centre for the slowly forming Army of the Military of the Democratic Republic of

247-760: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (then called Republic of the Congo) gained independence from Belgium, the UMHK, Moise Tshombe and Godefroid Munongo supported the secession of Katanga province from the Congo. This was supported by Belgium but opposed by the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba . This led to the assassination of Lumumba and the Katanga Crisis (or "Congo Crisis"), which lasted from 1960 to 1965. The breakaway State of Katanga existed from 1960 to 1963, then

266-422: The country's biggest mining companies. The Democratic Republic of Congo produces "more than 3 percent of the world’s copper and half its cobalt , most of which comes from Katanga". Major mining concessions include Tilwezembe and Kalukundi . The province bordered Angola and formed the entire Congolese border with Zambia. It also bordered Tanzania – although on Lake Tanganyika rather than on land. Katanga has

285-480: The flowering plant Pavetta lomamiensis . 0°46′N 24°16′E  /  0.767°N 24.267°E  / 0.767; 24.267 This article related to a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kamina Kamina is the capital city of Haut-Lomami Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Kamina

304-456: The province is a rich mining region which supplies cobalt , copper , tin , radium , uranium , and diamonds . The region's former capital, Lubumbashi , is the second-largest city in the Congo. Copper mining in Katanga dates back over 1,000 years, and mines in the region were producing standard-sized ingots of copper for international transport by the end of the 10th century CE. In

323-406: The stadium was completed as a gift from then-President Joseph Kabila to the population of Haut-Lomami . This Democratic Republic of the Congo location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Katanga Province Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of

342-504: Was kept secret by UMHK. After World War I ended a factory was built at Olen ; the secrecy was lifted at the end of 1922 with the announcement of the production of the first gram of radium from the pitchblende. By the start of World War II , the mining companies "constituted a state within the Belgian Congo ". The Shinkolobwe mine near Jadotville (now Likasi ) was at the centre of the Manhattan Project . In 1960, after

361-467: Was reintegrated. In 2005, the new constitution specified that Katanga was to be split up into separately administered provinces. Militias such as Mai Mai Kata Katanga led by Gédéon Kyungu Mutanga fought for Katanga to secede, and his group briefly took over the provincial capital Lubumbashi in 2013. In 2015, Katanga Province was split into the constitutional provinces of Tanganyika , Haut-Lomami , Lualaba , and Haut-Katanga . Copper mining

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