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This is a list of places, mostly cities and towns, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo without regard to their official status. Administrative units Human ...
Champion Newspapers 42,600 Weekly Community Claremont Courier: Claremont: 35,600 [2] Weekly Claremont local news Del Norte Triplicate: Crescent City: Country Media, Inc. Weekly The Mountain Messenger: Downieville 2,500 Weekly Sierra County news East Bay Express: Emeryville 49,766 Weekly The Coast News: Encinitas: Coast News Group 20,000 Weekly ...
In 2019 mayors for the new cities of Uvira, Baraka, Kamituga, and Kasumbalesa were appointed. [11] [12] The setting up of a city administration and those of its subdivisions can take years given the lack of local resources. For instance the town of Buta gained city status when it became a provincial capital in 2015, had its first mayor ...
The capital city of Kinshasa is a one of a kind administrative division due to article 2 of the Constitution which makes it a division of the country and gives it the status of a province. [6] In practice this means that—like a province—it has a provincial government with an elected governor and an Assembly, but—like a city—it is ...
BBC News. 4 May 2011. "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Electronic Newspapers of Africa. Virtual Libraries: African Studies. New York, USA: Columbia University Libraries. Karen Fung, African Studies Association (ed.). "News (by country): Congo-Kinshasa". Africa South of the Sahara. USA – via Stanford University. Annotated directory
The DRC is the second-largest diamond-producing nation in the world, [c] and artisanal and small-scale miners account for most of its production. At independence in 1960, DRC was the second-most-industrialized country in Africa after South Africa; it boasted a thriving mining sector and a relatively productive agriculture sector. [210]
There is currently 540 newspapers in the country. Major newspapers are only nominally privately owned. Journalists must be members of the state-controlled union to practise their profession. The press today is firmly under MPR control. The largest dailies were Elima, Courrier d'Afrique, and Salongo (10,000).
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