Bas-Uele Province

Bas-Uele (Lower Uele) is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution (effective 18 February 2006).[1] It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months (18 February 2009).[2] As of October 2010, this had not taken place.[3] It is one of four new provinces to be created from the current Orientale province. It lies in the north-east of the country on the Uele River and was formerly part of the province of Orientale.

The capital of the province is the town of Buta.[4]

Most of the inhabitants of the Bas-Uele province, with a population of 900,000 in 2007, are Baboa people. They live mainly through subsistence farming and hunting, with some river commerce.[5]

Territories

References

  1. ^ "Constitution de la République démocratique du Congo: Article 2". Wikisource. http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_de_la_R%C3%A9publique_d%C3%A9mocratique_du_Congo#Article_2. 
  2. ^ "Constitution de la République démocratique du Congo: Article 226". Wikisource. http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_de_la_R%C3%A9publique_d%C3%A9mocratique_du_Congo#Article_226. 
  3. ^ "The AMP conclave: Another step towards 2011 elections". Congo Siasa. http://congosiasa.blogspot.com/2010/10/amp-conclave-another-step-towards-2011.html. 
  4. ^ "Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Statiods.com. http://www.statoids.com/ucd.html. 
  5. ^ Emizet F. Kisangani, F. Scott Bobb (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scarecrow Press. p. 45. ISBN 0810857618. http://books.google.ca/books?id=FvAWPTaRvFYC&pg=PA45.