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20-560: Haut-Uele District (Upper Uele District) was named after the Uele River , and covers the upper part of the river basin. The Haut-Uele District was created by an arrêté royal of 28 March 1912, which divided the Congo into 22 districts. A 1912 map shows that the former Uele District had been broken into the Haut-Uele and Bas-Uele (Lower Uele) districts. Haut-Uele was bordered by French territory to

40-553: A route from the Uele River to the Nile to transport cotton, coffee and other products of the region. In 1926 the Régie was converted into a commercial company, the Société des Mines d’Or de Kilo-Moto. Hydroelectric stations were built to power the crushing plants, and by 1930 the two mines, but mostly Kilo, were producing almost 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lb) annually. Moulaert was made chairman of

60-615: 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. The population is composed primarily of Alur , Hema , Lendu , Ngiti , Bira and Ndo-Okebo , with differing figures on which one of

80-1057: The Ituri Province . The Kilo mine was opened in 1905 and the Moto mine in 1911. Gold was also extracted by panning the river gravels. In 1919 the government created the Régie Industrielle des Mines de Kilo-Moto , an autonomous body. At the end of 1919 Louis Franck , the Minister of the Colonies , gave Georges Moulaert , former governor of Équateur Province , responsibility for the Kilo-Moto state mines. These were located in largely hostile territory, with no communications and very primitive operations. Moulaert tackled improvements to roads, transport, medical support, supplies and crops, as well as mining installations, exploitation of alluvium and eluvium deposits, prospecting and research. Between 1920 and 1924

100-511: The Ituri district whose town of Bunia was elevated to capital city of the new province. The Ituri Rainforest is in this area, and 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: Ituri is a region of high plateau (2000–5000 meters) that has a large tropical forest but also

120-577: The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group, attacked several villages in Haut-Uele District. The Makombo massacre took place from 14 to 17 December 2009 in the village and region of Makombo in the Haut-Uele district. Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes the attacks, which killed 321 people, were perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which denied responsibility. In 2015 Orientale Province

140-531: 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

160-746: The Uele joins the Mbomou River at Yakoma . Main tributaries to the Uele river are the Bomokandi River (left side) and Uere River (right side). The Uele–Mbomou confluence at Yakoma marks the origin of the Ubangi River , which in turn flows into the Congo River . The Uele is the longest tributary of the Ubangi. The combined Ubangi–Uele length is about 2,270 kilometres (1,410 mi). From satellite images, parts of

180-441: The board. He continued to head the company until 1947. Moulaert boosted gold production at Kilo-Moto, but his methods were questioned, particularly forced recruitment of Black workers, who totaled 10,012 in 1918 and over 40,000 in 1939. Alexis Bertrand wrote a 1932 report that strongly criticized the practices at the Kilo-Moto gold mines. The report said from 35% to 50% of able bodied adult men were forced to leave their homes to work

200-473: 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 political rivalry contributed to the start of the current Ituri conflict , which has caused thousands of deaths. Most official cartographers did not include

220-486: The company built 828 kilometres (514 mi) of roads, with many metal bridges, and installed 345 kilometres (214 mi) of telegraph and telephone lines. In 1924 a 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW) hydroelectric power station was inaugurated at Soleniana and the grinding plant was electrified. Due to poor transport across the Congo region, particularly the Matadi-Léopoldville Railway , the company developed

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240-618: The gold deposits, far above the official limit of 10% set by the Manpower Commission. This caused public controversy. Moulaert strongly defended "his" company, but criticism continued into the 1940s. With the 1933 reorganization Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele were again combined into Uele District, and lay in the new Stanleyville Province . By 1954 Stanleyville Province had been renamed Orientale Province, and Uele District had again been split into Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele districts. A 1955–1957 map shows Haut-Uele District bordered by French territory to

260-542: The landscape of savannah. The province 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. The Kilo-Moto gold mines are partly 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 . Ituri, as Kibali-Ituri ,

280-620: 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. 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

300-911: The new provinces of Kibali-Ituri , Uélé and Haut-Congo . On 28 December 1966 Orientale Province was reunited. The Durba Mine is a gold mine in the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , within the Kilo-Moto greenstone belt . As of 2011 a joint venture between AngloGold Ashanti and Randgold Resources was actively developing the Kibali Gold Mine concession centered on this mine. Between 1998 and 2000, co-circulating Marburg virus and Ravn virus caused 154 cases of Marburg virus disease and 128 deaths among illegal gold miners in Durba and nearby Watsa . The 2008 Christmas massacres took place on 24–27 December 2008, when

320-412: The north, Ituri District to the southeast, Stanleyville District to the southwest and Bas-Uele District to the west. The area was 89,700 square kilometres (34,600 sq mi) out of a total of 503,200 square kilometres (194,300 sq mi) for Orientale province as a whole. On 27 July 1962 the administration of Orientale Province was taken over by the central government. It was divided into

340-555: The north, British territory to the east, Ituri and Stanleyville districts to the south and Bas-Uele to the west. The Haut-Uele District became part of the Orientale Province created in 1913. Kilo-Moto is a region in the far northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where gold was discovered in the Ituri River by government prospectors in 1903. Moto is in the Haut-Uélé Province and Kilo in

360-450: The river look red from the iron oxide contaminants in the river. Kibali-Ituri Ituri Province ( Jimbo la Ituri in Swahili ) is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning . Ituri, Bas-Uele , Haut-Uele , and Tshopo provinces are the result of the subdividing of the former Orientale province . Ituri was formed from

380-642: Was a province of the DRC from 1962 to 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,

400-520: Was broken up into the provinces of Bas-Uélé , Haut-Uélé , Ituri and Tshopo . Uele River The Uele , also known by the phonetically identical Uélé , Ouélé , or Welle River , is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The Uele forms at Dungu , at the confluence of the Dungu and Kibali rivers , which both originate in the mountains near Lake Albert . Combined these rivers flow west for about 1,210 kilometres (750 mi), until

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