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29-519: Kalehe Territory is a territory in South Kivu , Democratic Republic of the Congo . 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 is located in the far eastern Congo on the western shores of Lake Kivu . The eastern part of Kahuzi-Biéga National Park

58-475: A territory are: sectors (fr. secteurs , sing. secteur ), chiefdoms (fr. chefferies , sing. chefferie ) and communes. A territory has at least one commune that is the administrative center and also one or more collectivities (a sector or chiefdom). Unlike its counterpart, the city, or its divisions, the territory is not a juridical person . However, the actions of its authorities are under administrative control and subject to judicial appeal. In 2018 73% of

87-462: A way that is not contrary to the Constitution, the law, public order and decency. The leaders are also obligated to be apolitical. Although selected by local structures according to custom, traditional leaders can only exercise their authority if they are officially recognized and invested by the government. Failure of the government to do so can cause great resentment. In 2013 such a dispute over

116-621: 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. This Democratic Republic of the Congo location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Territories of

145-539: Is also a constituency of the National Assembly as well as of the Provincial Assembly of its province. Each territory is led by a territory administrator (fr. administrateur de territoire ) assisted by two assistant territory administrators (fr. administrateurs de territoire assistants ). They are appointed by the central government and put under the direction of the provincial governor. The divisions of

174-482: Is based on data compiled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) as part of organizing the election cycle of 2018. The count of cities only includes those currently represented in the national and provincial assemblies and not those that became cities after the organization of the elections. Thus, for example, the new city of Uvira is not counted as a city but as a commune in

203-523: Is located in Kalehe Territory. 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. During flooding on 2 to 4 May 2023 there was flooding in

232-456: The Congo would go from 21 cities and 227 cités in 2008 to 99 cities and 289 territorial communes in the reorganization. However, in July 2015 the implementation of many of the decrees' articles were suspended following the failure in the National Assembly of an electoral bill based on the boundaries in the decrees. In order to pass a modified bill allocating seats for upcoming local elections, it

261-634: The Democratic Republic of the Congo The territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are administrative divisions of provinces . Territories are further divided into sectors , chiefdoms , and communes . They are led by an administrator and, for the most part, take the name of the town that is their administrative center. The 25 provinces of DR Congo are divided into 145 territories (fr. territoires , sing. territoire ) and 33 cities (fr. villes , sing. ville ). Each provincial division

290-511: The League of Women Voters for the Elections met with the electoral commission and condemned the delay in starting candidate registration for the local elections. In June, the League of Voters stressed the importance of these elections and asked President Tshisekedi to intervene to get the process going. In August, a petition with two million signatures demanding that the elections be held was filed at

319-401: The capital the status of a province. The hierarchy of types of administrative division in the province, as set down in other organic law , is as follows: (French names in italics.) So a province is divided into territories and cities; a territory into sectors, chiefdoms, and communes; a sector or chiefdom into groupings; and so on. The Constitution, as before, divides the country into

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348-474: The city of Kinshasa and the provinces; however, it increased the number of provinces from ten to twenty-five. This was put into effect in 2015, when the six largest provinces were split into twenty-one new provinces. Together with the four unsplit provinces— Bas-Congo (renamed Kongo Central), Maniema , Nord-Kivu , and Sud-Kivu —they make up the twenty-five provinces listed in Article 2 of the Constitution. Under

377-444: The elections for sector and chiefdom council were pushed back to 11 July 2024 leaving only the commune elections to be run on 20 December 2023. Traditional leaders have a significant role in governing the subdivisions. At the first administrative level, 8% of all provincial deputies are co-opted traditional leaders. At the third and forth levels they are the leaders of 25% and 70% of the subdivisions respectively. In 2018, 64% of

406-619: The elections would be held sometime in 2020. This did not happen. However, in February 2022 the new electoral commission published a roadmap for the next election cycle that would have the local council elections occur in December 2023 along with the elections for the president, the National Assembly, and the provincial assemblies. But, when the electoral calendar was published in November 2022,

435-405: The electorate lived in a grouping without counting those in embedded groupings. Traditional authority is recognized by Article 207 of the Constitution and a law defining the legal status of traditional leaders was passed in 2015. In addition to being official leaders of their administrative divisions, these leaders exercise customary authority – which can involve traditional advisory councils – in

464-605: The electorate were in territories. The 145 territories are listed below, in alphabetical order, along with the provinces after and before the 2015 reorganization : Subdivisions of the DR Congo#New provinces Under the Third Republic, established in 2006, the number of provinces has gone from ten to twenty-five. By fits and starts the number of towns that have been, or are in the process of being, upgraded to cities has also increased greatly. Reforms to devolve powers to

493-421: The former Kasaï-Oriental province; created from the territories of the former Kabinda district, the city of Mwene-Ditu, and by making the town of Kabinda the capital city. In June 2013 a batch of prime ministerial decrees was issued giving city and commune status to, and setting the boundaries for, a large number of former cités and other populated places. According to the government's 2014 statistical yearbook

522-707: The leadership of a grouping eventually led, through an escalation of conflicts in 2016, to the Kamwina Nsapu rebellion . Except for the four National Assembly districts in Kinshasa, all electoral districts in Table 4 are administrative divisions. The Carter Center expert mission report for the 2018 elections criticizes the use of these divisions for national and provincial elections as not meeting international standards for uniform allocation of voters per constituency. As example they contrast 27,228 voters per National Assembly seat in

551-400: The old organization the six former provinces were divided into districts and cities. The districts were further divided into territories. Each new province was created from the territories of one or two districts, adding any enclosed cities and—if necessary—making the new capital a city. The following table gives the complete details. So for instance, Lommami province resulted from the split of

580-570: The presidential palace. The signatures were collected within two months by the Catholic and Protestant Churches. At the end of October the outgoing electoral commission presented their final report to the National Assembly. At this time their rapporteur said that organizing the local elections required a workforce of 650,000 and the allocation of considerable funds by the government. Finally, in December President Tshisekedi declared that

609-408: The provinces were completed in 2006, but devolution to more local levels have again been delayed when elections scheduled for 2019 were not held. Traditional authority continues to play a significant role in governance with traditional leaders leading many of the subdivisions at the lower levels. The Constitution divides the country into the capital city of Kinshasa and 25 provinces . It also gives

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638-524: The provincial assemblies of the eleven provinces. Similar elections for local councils have yet to occur. Thus, the effected subdivisions have no deliberative body and their leaders, as provided by law, are unelected and appointed from above. In this way a city mayor is much like a territory administrator. For now the Congolese voter does not have a say in local affairs. Local council elections were scheduled to occur on 22 September 2019. In April of that year

667-432: 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. 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

696-534: The setting up of cities and communes would be prioritized with 18 cities in the initial phase. In 2019 mayors for the new cities of Uvira , Baraka , Kamituga , and Kasumbalesa were appointed. The setting up of a city administration and those of its subdivisions can take years given the lack of local resources. For instance the town of Buta gained city status when it became a provincial capital in 2015, had its first mayor appointed in 2018, and by June 2019 its four communes were still not operational. Table 2

725-414: The subdivisions at the third administrative level. They all were to have both an executive body with a leader and a deliberative body which was to elect the leader. The other subdivisions remained purely administrative in nature. The Congolese voter would have a direct say in the affairs of the province by voting in a deputy to the provincial assembly which would then go on to elect the governor. The voter

754-413: The table. This of course also effects the counts of city subdivisions such as communes and quarters. The Constitution of 2006 and ensuing organic laws brought reforms to the governance of the subdivisions which are not yet complete. Table 3 sketches the envisioned governance by subdivision type and its current status. These reforms devolved powers to the provinces and, more modestly, to the cities and

783-484: The territories. Ultimately the planned for local elections never occurred, but the suspensions were not lifted until mid-2018 just months before the general election . The National Alliance of Traditional Authorities of the Congo protested this reinstatement as diminishing traditional authority and as a threat to national security. In addition to reinstating the articles the government decided that disputes over boundaries would be resolved by an ad hoc committee and that

812-444: Was also to have a say in more local affairs by voting in a councilperson to the local council which was then, except in a chiefdom, to go on to elect the local leader. If the voter lived in a provincial city they were also to have a more indirect say, again through the local council, in the composition of the city government. Devolution to the provinces was launched with the 2006 provincial elections  [ fr ] which elected

841-425: Was decided to suspend those articles that were contentious and to revert the affected communities to their 2006 administrative configurations. The articles granting city status to new provincial capitals— Boende , Bunia , Buta , Gemena , Inongo , Isiro , Kabinda , Kalemie , Kamina , Kenge , Lisala , and Lusambo —were not suspended and neither were those granting commune status to the administrative centers of

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