Mongala Province

Mongala is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution (effective 18 February 2006), under Article 2.^[1] It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months (18 February 2009), according to Article 226.^[2] As of October 2010, this had not taken place.^[3]

From 1963–1966, it was a province known as Moyen-Congo, but it was reintegrated into Équateur province under Mobutu; it was only re-recognized as a province after the approvement of the 2006 Constitution, along with fourteen other provinces which were then approved.

It is located at the northwest of the country on the Congo river, and borders Tshopo, Bas-Uele, Nord-Ubangi, Sud-Ubangi, Équateur and Tshuapa.

The capital of Mongala province is the town of Lisala.^[4]

Presidents (later governors) of Moyen-Congo

• 6 April 1963 – June 1964 Laurent Eketebi (s.a.)
  • (de facto from 15 September 1962)
• April 1963 – 30 July 1963 Denis Akundji
  • (president of secessionist province of Bumba)
• 23 June 1964 – 10 August 1965 Augustin Engwanda
• 10 August 1965 – 25 April 1966 Denis Sakombi (born 1929, died 1985)

Territories

• Bongandanga
• Bumba, major town and site of a former secessionist state (1963) in the province.
• Lisala

Villages

• Yambuku

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_2. 
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.