Orientale (province)

Orientale (also Oriental; formerly Haut-Zaïre, then Haut-Congo) is one of the ten provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The province lies in the northeast of the country. It borders Équateur province to the west, Kasai-Oriental province to the southwest, Maniema province to the south, and Nord-Kivu province to the southeast. It also borders the Central African Republic and South Sudan to the north, and Uganda to the east. The provincial capital is Kisangani.

Following the 2005 Constitution (effective 18 February 2006), Orientale was to be divided into four new provinces within 36 months (18 February 2009): Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, Ituri, and Tshopo. As of October 2010, this had not taken place.^[1]

History

In 1998 the Orientale villages of Durba and Watsa were the center of an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever among gold mine workers.

The Ituri district of Orientale was the scene of Ituri conflict.

Cities and towns

References

1. ^ "The AMP conclave: Another step towards 2011 elections". Congo Siasa. http://congosiasa.blogspot.com/2010/10/amp-conclave-another-step-towards-2011.html. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Haut-Congo: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". World Gazetteer. http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1263071407&men=gcis&lng=en&des=gamelan&geo=-46&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=&geo=-853. 

External links

• CDC "Map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo indicating the neighboring villages of Durba and Watsa, the epicenter of the 1998 outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever."
• Site of the province (Gouverneur and provnce assembly), in french