Ituri Province

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Province in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ituri Province
Province
Coordinates: 1°50′N 29°30′E / 1.833°N 29.500°E / 1.833; 29.500Coordinates: 1°50′N 29°30′E / 1.833°N 29.500°E / 1.833; 29.500
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Capital	Bunia
Largest city	Bunia
Government
• Governor	Jefferson Abdallah[1]
Area
• Total	65,658 km2 (25,351 sq mi)
Area rank	16th
Population (2005 est.)
• Total	4,241,236
• Rank	4th
• Density	65/km2 (170/sq mi)
Official language	French
National language	Swahili
Website	http://provinceituri.co/

Ituri is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[2] Its capital is the city of Bunia.^[3]

Contents

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  1 Geography
  


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  2 Economy
  


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  3 History
  
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    3.1 Approximate correspondence between historical and current province
    
  
  


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  4 Government
  
  • 
    4.1 Presidents, later governors, of Kibali-Ituri from 1962-1966
    
  
  
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    4.2 Governors of Ituri since 1999
    
  
  


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  5 Demographics
  


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  6 See also
  


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  7 References
  


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  8 Further reading
  


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  9 External links
  

Geography

Ituri Rainforest

The Ituri Rainforest is in this area. It is located northeast of the Ituri River and on the western side of Lake Albert. It has borders with Uganda and South Sudan. Its five administrative territories are:

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  Aru (6,740 km²)


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  Djugu (8,184 km²)


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  Irumu (8,730 km²)


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  Mahagi (5,221 km²)


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  Mambasa (36,783 km²)

Ituri is a region of high plateau (2000–5000 meters) that has a large tropical forest but also the landscape of savannah. The district has rare fauna, including the okapi, the national animal of the Congo. As for flora, an important species is Mangongo, whose leaves are used by the Mbuti to build their homes.

Economy

The Kilo-Moto gold mines are located in Ituri. In the beginning of the 21st century, petroleum reserves have been found by Heritage Oil and Tullow Oil on the shores of Lake Albert.

History

See also: Ituri conflict

Ituri, as Kibali-Ituri, was a province of the DRC from 1962-1966. Prior to the adoption of the 2006 Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the legal status of Ituri was a topic of some dispute. From the beginning of the Second Congo War in 1998, it was held by soldiers of the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) and the Ugandan-backed Movement for Liberation faction of the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD-ML). In June 1999, the commander of UPDF forces in the DRC, Brig. Gen. James Kazini, ignored the protests of RCD-ML leaders and re-created the province of Kibali-Ituri out of the eastern section of the northeastern Orientale province. It is almost always referred to simply as Ituri. The creation of the new province under the governorship of a Hema contributed to the start of the current Ituri conflict, which has caused thousands of deaths. Most official cartographers did not include the new province, and those referring to it as a "province" rather than a "region" were sometimes viewed as having a pro-Uganda bias. With the new constitution, Ituri's status as a province was finally settled.

Approximate correspondence between historical and current province

Approximate correspondence between historical and current province

Belgian Congo				Republic of the Congo		Zaire		Democratic Republic of the Congo
1908	1919	1932	1947	1963	1966	1971	1988	1997	2015
22 districts	4 provinces	6 provinces	6 provinces	21 provinces + capital	8 provinces + capital	8 provinces + capital	11 provinces	11 provinces	26 provinces
Bas-Uele	Orientale	Stanleyville	Orientale	Uele	Orientale	Haut-Zaïre		Orientale	Bas-Uele
Haut-Uele									Haut-Uele
Ituri				Kibali-Ituri					Ituri
Stanleyville				Haut-Congo					Tshopo
Aruwimi
Maniema		Costermansville	Kivu	Maniema	Kivu		Maniema
Lowa
Kivu				Nord-Kivu			Nord-Kivu
				Kivu-Central			Sud-Kivu

Government

An Ituri Interim Administration was formed through the efforts of the Ituri Pacification Commission, a commission sponsored by the United Nations Organization Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC, abbreviation of the French name "Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo") that was set up, after much initial delay, in 2003 after the pull-out of Ugandan troops from the district. It led to the creation of the Ituri Interim Assembly, which elected an administrator and an assembly chairperson; the current assembly chairperson is Petronille Vaweka, who is also the sole deputy for the district to the National Assembly in Kinshasa.

The Interim Assembly will be reconstituted or replaced by a provincial assembly under the 2006 constitution. An election for the governor and vice-governor will also be held, and the district will be re-created as a province of the DRC.

Presidents, later governors, of Kibali-Ituri from 1962-1966

• September 1962 - 28 December 1966 Jean Foster Manzikala
  

Governors of Ituri since 1999

• *1999* Adele Lotsoye Mugisa (appointed by James Kazini)


• December 1999 - early 2001 Ernest Uringi Padolo
  


• December 2001 - November 2002 Joseph Eneku
  


• February 2002 - ? Jean-Pierre Mulondo Lonpondo
  


• April 2003–2016 Emmanuel Leku Apuobo
  


• March 2016-present Jefferson Abdalla
  

Demographics

Bunia from the air

The population is composed primarily of Alur, Hema, Lendu, Ngiti, Bira and Ndo-Okebo, with differing figures on which one of the groups constitutes the largest percentage of the population in the province. The Mbuti, a pygmy ethnic group, reside primarily in the Ituri forest near the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, although some Mbuti have been forced into urban areas by deforestation, over-hunting and violence.

See also

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References

1. 
   ^ "RDC: liste de nouveaux gouverneurs de province élus". Radio Okapi. 26 March 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2016. 
   


2. 
   ^
   Central Intelligence Agency (2016). "Democratic Republic of the Congo". The World Factbook. Langley, Virginia: Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 10 May 2016. 
   


3. 
   ^ "Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Statiods.com. 
   

Further reading

• WOLTERS, S., 2005. Is Ituri on the Road to Stability? An update on the current security situation in the district. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies.

External links

• Map of Ituri


• Cautious Calm Settles Over War-scarred Ituri Region, Michael Deibert, Inter Press Service, April 2008

v t e Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Current provinces	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 North Kivu Nord-Ubangi Sankuru South Kivu Sud-Ubangi Tanganyika Tshopo Tshuapa
1966–2015	Bandundu Bas-Congo Équateur Kasaï-Occidental Kasaï-Oriental Katanga Kinshasa Maniema North Kivu Orientale South Kivu
1962–66	Cuvette-Centrale Ubangi Moyen-Congo Lomami Luluabourg Sankuru Sud-Kasaï Unité Kasaïenne Lualaba Katanga Oriental Nord-Katanga Kongo Central Kwango Kwilu Mai-Ndombe Maniema Kivu Central Nord-Kivu Kibali-Ituri Uele Haut-Congo