Lualaba [Congo], November 13 ( ANI ): At least 34 people were killed and 26 others were injured in a train crash in
Lualaba province in Democratic Republic of Congo on the intervening night of November 12 and 13.
Underscoring this problem, in early 2016 the special commissioner of
Lualaba province began a campaign to restore the share of taxes levied at the border be- tween Zambia and the DRC that the province lost when it was split from Katanga.
Underscoring this problem, in early 2016 the special commissioner of
Lualaba province began a campaign to restore the share of taxes levied at the border between Zambia and the DRC that the province lost when it was split from Katanga.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Hamed bin Muhammed, known as Tippu Tip--whose story Aziz recounts to Yusuf while sojourning in Tayari (P 130-33) (26) and whose biography supplies the novel with some of its historical information--controlled the area east of Lake Tanganyika as far as Kasongo, upriver on the
Lualaba from Stanley Falls, site of Conrad's Inner Station.
Echoing Kurtz's takeover of villages around an inland lake (Heart of Darkness 56), Arthur Hodister's onetime travelling companion Delcommune was celebrated in The Times for his explorations among the lakes of the Upper Congo, where he reportedly "brought into peaceful subjection all the negro chiefs near Lakes Moero, Bangala, and the banks of the
Lualaba" ("Exploration on the Congo").
But his geographic discoveries in southern and central Africa--including Victoria Falls, Lake Nyasa, and the
Lualaba River (the Upper Congo)--made him famous in Europe.
1): (I) The Albertine Highlands ecoregion has a tropical, wet climate and is characterized by rivers and streams connected to the
Lualaba River; (II) The Cuvette Central ecoregion has an equatorial wet climate and consists of moist forest rivers.
brieni Poll is known from the
Lualaba River basin, N.
The slave-trading networks extended far into the interior, to Lozi (Barotseland) and, beyond the
Lualaba, to Garenganze and further east as far as the Great Lakes region.
Variously called
Lualaba, Nzadi or Nzere by the native Africans who lived on its banks (Nzere means "the river that swallows all rivers" because of its many tributaries, and on the Portuguese tongue, Nzere became Zaire), the Congo and the huge territory it flowed through was a jewel any colonialist would die for.