Haut-Uele Province

Haut-Uele (pronunciation "oh tu WELL lay", (IPA) /o tu 'e 'le/) 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.

The province gets its name (which is French for "upper Uele") from the Uele, the major river that runs through it.

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

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.