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Masisi Territory has constantly been subjected to the conflict between the Congolese army and militias, which has plagued the eastern Congo since the ending of the Second Congo War. militias originating from the Rwandan genocide and the Congolese civil war, and Ugandan rebel groups, are involved in these episodes of conflict, which also relates ...
Mokgweetsi Masisi is the son of Edison Masisi (1921–2003), the long-time MP for Moshupa and many-time cabinet member. [6] The younger Masisi grew up in Gaborone, attending Thornhill Primary School and Maru-a-Pula School. [6] One of his three brothers, Tshelang, was the MP for Francistown West for many years, while another is a retired army ...
Masisi is the location of a number of cheese factories. Most of the cheese produced in the DRC comes from Masisi Territory. [2] During the last decade, Masisi and the surrounding countryside have witnessed strife and conflict as the many militias in this part of the country fought each other and against FARDC and MONUC, for territory and wealth ...
In January 2022, the civil society of Masisi Territory, led by its president César Bayomba, documented hundreds of cases of women afflicted with fistula between 2018 and 2020, most of which traced back to 1997 during the passage of the AFDL, when women were victims of sexual violence and unassisted childbirth. [40]
Edison Setlhomo Keitshoketswe Masisi (31 March 1921 – 14 February 2003) [1] was a politician and diplomat in Botswana and he is the father of the former President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi. He served as member of parliament of Mosopa between 1965 and 1999. Masisi attended Tiger Kloof along with future president Quett Masire. After ...
Tshelang Walter Masisi (c. 1960- August 28, 2013) was a Motswana politician. He was an elder brother to president Mokgweetsi Masisi and served as a member of the Pan-African Parliament , as well as the Parliament of Botswana , representing Francistown West for the Botswana Democratic Party from 1999 until his death in 2013.
Neo Jane Masisi was born on November 1971 in Francistown, the eldest of six children of Baruki and Irene Maswabi. Both her parents were university graduates. She grew up and attended school in Gaborone, where her parents were working. [3] [4] She married Mokgweetsi Masisi in 2002; they have a daughter named Atsile. [3]
In 1944, an uprising took place in Kivu in the eastern Belgian Congo.The cause of the revolt lay in Belgian authority's taxation and communal labor policies, which the Watchtower Movement denounced as ungodly. [1]