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Mweka is a territory in Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] The territory contains the town of Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo , and the town of Kakenge . It also contains the chiefdom of Bakuba (see Chiefdoms and sectors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ).
Mweka may refer to the following African places and jurisdictions : Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mweka , with seat in the above town
Mweka is a town in southern-central Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated on the Kasai railway line between Kananga (250 km away) and the Kasai River port of Ilebo (172 km away). Mweka is also the headquarters of the Territoire de Mweka (administrative district which is one of the territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ) of ...
The locality also gives its name to the Mweka Trail, one of the routes on Kilimanjaro, used for the descent. Following the independence of Tanganyika in 1961, the College of African Wildlife Management was established in 1963 by Bruce Kinloch as a pioneer institution for the training of African wildlife managers.
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President Ngo Dinh Diem and family at his home in Hue (Central Viet Nam).jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem on an inspection tour 350 km from Saigon (December, 1956).jpg; Portrait of Ngô Đình Diệm, from the book Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam.jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem with the troops who defeated the Binh-Xuyen at Rung-Sat (May, 1955).jpg
In 1992, it was made a Rhinoceros Reserve upon the discovery of a population of the Vietnamese Javan rhinoceros, but these had died out by 2010. In addition 76 mammal, 320 bird, 74 reptile, 35 amphibian, 99 fish and 435 butterfly species have been recorded in the park.
The Phong Nha Nature Reserve with an area of 50 km 2 was officially declared by the Vietnamese government on 9 August 1986 and was extended to 411.32 km 2 by 1991. On 12 December 2001, the Vietnamese Prime Minister by Decision 189/2001 189/2001/QĐ-TTG turning then a nature reserve into a national park.