Bas-Uélé

Coordinates: 2°48′8.84″N 24°44′1.17″E / 2.8024556°N 24.7336583°E / 2.8024556; 24.7336583
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Bas-Uélé
Province du Bas-Uélé (French)
Wɛlɛ ya Nsé (Lingala)
UTC+2 (CAT)
License Plate CodeDemocratic Republic of the Congo CGO / 02
Official languageFrench
National languagePa-Zande (Zande language) and Lingala
Websitehttps://mobile.twitter.com/bas_uele

Bas-Uélé (French for "Lower Uélé") is one of the 21 new

2015 repartitioning. Bas-Uélé, Haut-Uélé, Ituri, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Orientale Province.[2] Bas-Uélé was formed from the Bas-Uele District whose town of Buta was elevated to capital city of the new province.[3]

Administration

Bas-Uélé lies in the north-east of the DRC on the

Uélé River
(the French name for the province means "Lower Uélé"). The province includes the following territories:
[4]

People

Most of the inhabitants of the Bas-Uélé Province, with a population of 900,000 in 2007, are Azandé people. There are others peoples like the Boa, Bakere, Balele, Bakango, Babenza, etc., are also present in this province. They live mainly through

subsistence farming and hunting, with some river commerce.[5]

Ebola

Three people have been reported dead and six suspected with the Ebola virus. The nation has declared an Ebola outbreak.[6] Since the authentic announcement of the epidemic by using the country’s Ministry of Health on 12 May, two person have been declared Ebola-positive, one died from the disease. In order to forestall the unfold of the disease, all human beings with hemorrhagic fever are being tracked, their blood analyzed, and the fitness state of affairs of all human beings who had been in contact with a suspected case are intently monitored.[7]

Sources

Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Ebola section's some part is attributed from https://www.unicef.org/

References

  1. ^ "Bas – Uélé : Remise et reprise, le Professeur Jean Robert Nzanza prend son fauteuil de Gouverneur de province". rfm tv (in French). 7 July 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Découpage territorial : procédures d'installation de nouvelles provinces". Radio Okapi (in French). 13 July 2015. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Statiods.com.
  4. ^ X. Blaes, PNUD-SIG (October 2008). "Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). UNOCHA and PNUD. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
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  7. ^ "Community health volunteers deployed across the Bas-Uele Province to contain the outbreak of the Ebola virus". www.unicef.org. Retrieved 2023-02-09.