Watsa Territory

Watsa Territory is an administrative area in the Haut-Uele District of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The administrative center is the town of Watsa.

Security issues

During the Second Congo War (1998-2003), in August 1998, Ugandan troops occupied areas of Haut Uele including the town of Durba, the site of the Gorumbwa, Durba and Agbarabo gold mines. Almost one ton of gold was extracted during the four-year period of occupation, worth about $9 million at the time.

At the end of September 2009, fighters from the Lord's Resistance Army LRA combatants were said to have attacked a number of villages in the Durba/Watsa mining area. As of April 2010 Watsa Territory was thought to have about 13,960 Internally Displaced People.

Divisions

The territory is divided into sectors and chiefdoms:

Andobi Chiefdom

Kebo Chiefdom

Ateru Chiefdom

Andikofa Chiefdom

Gombari Sector

Mari-Minza Chiefdom

Walese Chiefdom

Mangbutu Sector

Kibali Sector

References

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Watsa

Watsa is a community in Province Orientale of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, administrative center of the Watsa Territory. It is served by Watsa Airport, a grass airstrip 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the town.

Watsa was the location of the VI battalion of the Force Publique in the 1940s and 1950s.

Between 1998 and 2000, co-circulating Marburg virus and Ravn virus caused 154 cases of Marburg virus disease and 128 deaths among illegal gold miners in Watsa and the nearby Durba Mine. In January and February 2011 the Lords Resistance Army attacked people in the territories of Dungu, Faradje, Niangara and Watsa, causing 33,000 people to be displaced. They were slow to return due to the feeble response of government security forces.