Kalehe Territory

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.

Kalehe
Territory
Kalehe is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kalehe
Kalehe
Coordinates: 02°06′15″S 28°27′30″E
Country DR Congo
ProvinceSouth Kivu
SeatKalehe
Area
[1]
 • Total5,057 km2 (1,953 sq mi)
Population
[1]
 • Total933,181
 • Density180/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (CAT)
Official languageFrench
National languageSwahili

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]

See also

References
  1. "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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