Kalehe Territory

Kalehe
Kalehe
Territory
	Kalehe
	Coordinates: 02°06′15″S28°27′30″E / 2.10417°S 28.45833°E
Country	DR Congo
Province	South Kivu
Seat	Kalehe
Area
• Total	5,057 km2 (1,953 sq mi)
Population
• Total	933,181
• Density	180/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (CAT)
Official language	French
National language	Swahili

Last updated May 23, 2023

Kalehe Territory is a territory in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[2] Its administrative centre is the town of Kalehe on the western shore of Lake Kivu. Other important towns include Buguli, Bunyakiri, Kalangala, Kalungu, Minova, and Nyamasasa.

Geography

Kalehe Territory is located in the far eastern Congo on the western shores of Lake Kivu. The eastern part of Kahuzi-Biéga National Park is located in Kalehe Territory.^[3]

Kalehe Territory borders the country of Rwanda to the east, across Lake Kivu. It borders the province of North Kivu (the territories of Walikale and Masisi) in the north; and the territories of Shabunda in the west, Kabare in the south, and Idjwi (an island in the middle of the Lake Kivu) also to the east.^[4]

Flooding

During flooding on 2 to 4 May 2023 there was flooding in the region that destroyed 5,000 homes and killed about 400 people. The World Food Programme was aware that there were over 100,000 internally displaced people and 50,000 people were expected to need assistance.^[5]

Administrative divisions

Kalehe Territory is subdivided into two chiefdoms: Buloho and Buhavu. The buhavu chiefdom which is located alongside lake Kivu, is the most populated place of Kalehe.Its populations are "Bantu" and their common language is "Kihavu".The Buhavu is led by a clan called "Bahande".This clan lead majorly villages and urban centres of the chiefdom. WE find in Ihusi, south part of Kalehe,the king's palace (mwami) called Kamirogosa. Note that Nyangezi Mugugu is the father of the journalist Elvis Elisha Nyangezi of the Bubandano Radio in Minova.^[6]

Related Research Articles

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Minova</span> Town in Democratic Republic of the Congo

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kahuzi-Biéga National Park</span>

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The Ruzizi Plain is the valley of the Ruzizi River, an area of the Western Rift Valley in the Uvira Territory of the South Kivu Province in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is strategically located between the Mitumba mountain chain on one side and the Ruzizi River, which separates the DRC from Burundi and Rwanda, on the other side. It is crossed by the Ruzizi River, which flows from Lake Kivu through the plain and into Lake Tanganyika. It covers an area of 175,000 hectares divided between Burundi, Rwanda and the DRC. In Burundi, the plain extends to the northern sector of Imbo. It is bounded by parallels 2°36′ and 3°26′ south latitude and by meridians 29°00′ and 29°26 east longitude—an area of 1025 km2. The Congolese side is bounded to the north by the plain of Bugarama (Rwanda), to the east by the plain of Imbo (Burundi), to the West by the chain of Mitumba and to the South by Lake Tanganyika. The region covers thus about 80,000 hectares with 80 kilometers in length.

References

1 2 "Cellule d'Analyses des Indicateurs de Développement". caid.cd (in French). Archived from the original on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
↑ "DR Congo: humanitarian situation deteriorates in the Kivus". ICRC. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
↑ "Parc National de Kahuzi Biega" (in French). Archived from the original on 17 July 2018.
↑ A map of South-Kivu Province Showing the territories (Kabare, Kalehe) (Map). Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. from Munyuli, Théodore; et al. (2017). "Farmers′ perceptions, believes, knowledge and management practices of potato pests in South-Kivu Province, eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo". Open Agriculture. 2 (1): 362–385. doi: 10.1515/opag-2017-0040 .
↑ "WFP's emergency response to the Kalehe floods, South Kivu – Flash Report (11 May 2023) – Democratic Republic of the Congo | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
↑ Blaes, X. (October 2008). "Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). PNUD-SIG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2011.

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[caid.cd-1] 1 2 "Cellule d'Analyses des Indicateurs de Développement". caid.cd (in French). Archived from the original on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2023.

[2] "DR Congo: humanitarian situation deteriorates in the Kivus". ICRC. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.

[3] "Parc National de Kahuzi Biega" (in French). Archived from the original on 17 July 2018.

[4] A map of South-Kivu Province Showing the territories (Kabare, Kalehe) (Map). Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. from Munyuli, Théodore; et al. (2017). "Farmers′ perceptions, believes, knowledge and management practices of potato pests in South-Kivu Province, eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo". Open Agriculture. 2 (1): 362–385. doi: 10.1515/opag-2017-0040 .

[5] "WFP's emergency response to the Kalehe floods, South Kivu – Flash Report (11 May 2023) – Democratic Republic of the Congo | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.

[6] Blaes, X. (October 2008). "Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). PNUD-SIG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2011.

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