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The following lists events that happened during 1925 in the Belgian Congo .
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The following lists events that happened during 1925 in the Belgian Congo .
| Date | Event |
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| Kipushi Mine starts production. | |
| Compagnie sucrière Kwilu-Ngongo is created in the town of Kwilu Ngongo. [1] | |
| Charles Duchesne is appointed governor and deputy governor-general of the province of Équateur. [2] | |
| March | Sonatra ( Société Nationale des Transports Fluviaux au Congo ) merges with the transport operations of the Compagnie Industrielle et de Transports au Stanley Pool (Citas) to create Unatra (Union nationale des Transports fluviaux). [3] |
| April | Albert National Park is established, the core of what would become Virunga National Park. [4] |
| 2 July | Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), is born in Onalua in the Katako-Kombe Territory of the Kasaï Province . |
| 5 October | Antoine Gizenga, future prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is born in Mbanze. |
Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest-growing megacities. With an estimated population of 16 million residents, it's the most densely populated city in the DRC and the most populous city in Africa. It is Africa's third-largest metropolitan area and the leading economic, political, and cultural center of the DRC. It houses several industries, including low-tech manufacturing, such as such as plastic and foamwares, toilet paper, and bottled water, banking, and entertainment. The city also hosts some of DRC's significant institutional buildings, such as the Palais du Peuple, Palais de la Nation, Court of Cassation, Constitutional Court, Cité de l'Union Africaine, Palais de Marbre, Stade des Martyrs, Immeuble du Gouvernement, and multiple federal departments and agencies.
North Kivu is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Goma.
Gombe,, also known as La Gombe, or Downtown Kinshasa, is one of the 24 communes of Kinshasa, in the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Encompassing a vast area of approximately 29.33 square kilometers, it is home to an approximate population of 49,024 residents.
The Boulevard du 30 Juin is a major 5‑km street in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the city center's main transport artery, connecting the southern area of La Gombe with Kintambo and the Ngaliema to the west.
Article 2 of the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo divides the country into the capital city of Kinshasa and 25 named provinces. It also gives the capital the status of a province. Therefore, in many contexts Kinshasa is regarded as the 26th province.
Maurice Auguste Count Lippens was a noble Belgian businessman, politician, and colonial civil servant and lawyer.
The Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Zaïrois (SNCZ) was the state railway company in Zaire formed in 1974 by combining several privately owned railways. It suffered from lack of maintenance of the tracks and rolling stock, weak management, and external factors such as the Angolan Civil War and the collapse of the economy of Zaire under President Mobutu Sese Seko. Despite two projects funded by the World Bank, it had virtually ceased to function by the 1990s. It was replaced in 1995 by the short-lived private company SIZARAIL, which in turn was replaced by the present Société nationale des chemins de fer du Congo.
Haut-Uele District was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was formed from part of Uele District in 1912. It roughly corresponded in area to the present Haut-Uélé province.
Kwilu District was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It roughly corresponded to the present province of Kwilu.
Alfred Alphonse Moeller de Laddersous was a Belgian lawyer, colonial administrator and businessman. He served as governor of the Orientale Province in the Belgian Congo from 1926 to 1933.
Ubangi District was a district of the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. It went through various significant changes in extent.
The Union Nationale des Transports Fluviaux (Unatra) was a government-controlled company that provided river transport services in the Belgian Congo between 1925 and 1936.
The Compagnie Industrielle et de Transports au Stanley Pool (CITAS) was a Belgian company involved in transport on the Congo River between 1902 and 1955, in what was first the Congo Free State and then the Belgian Congo, today the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The company evolved from owning a shipyard in Léopoldville (now to providing transport services on the Congo, and then to running a port in Léopoldville.
Sucrerie du Kwilu Ngongo is a sugar manufacturing company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The sugar mill produces crystalline table sugar and maintains a distillery that manufactures rum under the brand Kwilu Rum. It is the oldest sugar mill in the country, having been established in 1925.
The following lists events that happened during 1923 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1932 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1920 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1917 in the Belgian Congo.
Finasucre is a Belgian family holding company which is primarily active in the sugar industry. It is the second Belgian sugar company with its daughter Iscal Sugar, after Raffinerie Tirlemontoise. Finasucre is controlled by the Lippens family.
