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When Belgium annexed the Belgian Congo as a colony in November 1908, it was initially organised into 22 districts. Ten western districts were administered directly by the main colonial government, while the eastern part of the colony was administered under two vice-governments: eight northeastern districts formed Orientale Province, and four southeastern districts formed Katanga.
The Mongo people are an ethnic group who live in the equatorial forest of Central Africa. [1] They are the largest ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, highly influential in its north region. [2] The Mongo people are a diverse collection of sub-ethnic groups who are referred to as AnaMongo.
The fragmented Kongo people in the 19th century were annexed by three European colonial empires, during the Scramble for Africa and Berlin Conference, the northernmost parts went to France (now the Republic of Congo and Gabon), the middle part along river Congo along with the large inland region of Africa went to Belgium (now the Democratic ...
[26] [27] [28] The river was known as Zaire during the 16th and 17th centuries; Congo seems to have replaced Zaire gradually in English usage during the 18th century, and Congo is the preferred English name in 19th-century literature, although references to Zaire as the name used by the natives (i.e., derived from Portuguese usage) remained ...
The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes at least 3,000 years ago, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. From the 13th century the present day territory was dominated by a confederation led by Vungu which included Kakongo and Ngoyo. Loango emerged in the 16th century.
After a rapid advance in the region, fighters from the M23 rebel group have entered Goma – a major city of more than a million people in the east of DR Congo.
Congo has more than 100 armed groups, mainly in the east of the central African nation of 100 million people that is roughly the size of Western Europe and has plentiful mineral supplies in the ...
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Republic of the Congo: Niger–Congo, Bantu: 10 [year needed] Luba: Central Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Niger–Congo, Bantu: 15 [year needed] Mongo: Central Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Niger–Congo, Bantu: 15 [year needed] Mossi: West Africa: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast ...