Kivu
Kivu is a muckle region i the eastren Democratic Republic o the Congo at bunds the Loch Kivu. Syne 1988, it is three provinces. wis a Région o the kintra unner the rule o Mobutu Sese Seko frae 1966 til 1988. As an offeicial Région in 1986, it wis dividit intae the three "Sub-Regions" (Sous-Régions in French): Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu and Maniema,[1] Thae three becam the current provinces in the reorganisaution o 1988.[2] The capital o the Kivu Region wis Bukavu, and the capitals o the three Sub-Regions wis Goma, Uvira and Kindu respectively.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]Kivu hes been repeatedly subjeckit tae major conflicks syne the airly 20t yeirhunner. Unner Belgian colonial rule, it wis the site o siveral religious revolts lik the 1944 Kivu uprisin.[3] Aifter Colngolese wanthirldom, it wis a battlegrund o the Simba rebellion, the First Congo War, an the Second Congo War, and hes been the site o the Kivu War syne the airly 2000s. I 2025, substantial pairts o the aurie cam unner the control of the 23t Mairch Muivement.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ International Crisis Group (9 Julie 2009). Congo: A Comprehensive Strategy to Disarm the FDLR (PDF). Africa Report No. 151. p. 1, note 1.
- ↑ Bruneau, Jean-Claude (30 Juin 2009). "Les nouvelles provinces de la République Démocratique du Congo : construction territoriale et ethnicités". L'Espace Politique (in French). 7 (2009–1). doi:10.4000/espacepolitique.1296. Retrieved 7 Mairch 2025.
- ↑ Stearns, Jason (2012). "North Kivu: The background to conflict in north Kivu province in eastern Congo" (PDF). refworld.org. pp. 14–15.