Kamina

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Kamina
Provincial Capital and UTC+2 (Central Africa Time)
National language	Swahili
Climate	Aw

Kamina is the capital city of Haut-Lomami Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Transport

Kamina is known as an important railway node; three lines of the

Military

The

When the Congo gained independence in June 1960, Belgium initially retained control of Kamina, under agreement with the Congolese government, but in October 1960 control of the base was taken over by the United Nations.[7]^[8] The base was never under Katangese control, although Katangese troops occupied the nearby town of Kaminaville.

In early 1964, the UN handed over Kamina to the

. Brassage is the process whereby fighters of the former DRC warring factions are brought together into new combined units.

Sports

In 2019, the Governor of Haut-Lomami inaugurated the "Stade Joseph Kabila Kabange", a modern sports arena. The stadium was started in 2008, with 2 Million US dollars of funding from Katanga Province. After work on the stadium halted for nearly a decade, the Governor announced that the stadium was completed as a gift from then-President Joseph Kabila to the population of Haut-Lomami.^[9]

See also

• University of Kamina
• Railway stations in DRCongo

References

Further reading

• J. Temmerman, 'Le Congo: Reduit National Belge,' in Recueil d'etudes <<Congo 1955-1960>>, Academie royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer (Bruxelles) pp. 413–422 (1992)