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16 unusual facts about Lubumbashi


Benjamin Bwalya

That same year, he travelled to Lubumbashi with Wanderers and they took part in two friendlies against St. Louis Lupopo and TP Mazembe.

Bwanga Tshimen

Bwanga won the 1973 African Footballer of the Year while with TP Mazembe in Lubumbashi.

December 2013 Kinshasa attacks

A further 47 of Mukungubila's supporters were killed in separate clashes in the cities of Lubumbashi and Kolwezi and around 100 people were arrested.

Elizabethville

Lubumbashi or Elizabethville, Democratic Republic of the Congo

George Ivan Smith

A State Department employee, Lewis Hoffacker, attempted to stop the kidnapping and managed to get Ivan Smith away from his abductors by pulling him from a truck; Senator Dodd was being feted at a private home in Elizabethville at the time.

Guides de la République Démocratique du Congo

However, the first official unit was not founded until 1937 in Elisabethville.

Haut-Katanga District

The copper mining centers of Lubumbashi and Likasi are surrounded by the district but are administratively separate.

Imagine No Malaria

In April 2010, in a coordinated effort with many different religious faiths and institutions, 25,000 bed nets were distributed in Lubumbashi, DRC.

Jacques Maghoma

Jacques Ilonda Maghoma (born 23 October 1987 in Lubumbashi, Zaire) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sheffield Wednesday.

Luca Servo

Since 2001, he has focused on International development activities, being founding member of Amka, an Italian NGO operating in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on integrated development programs.

Marcel Kimemba Mbayo

Marcel Kimemba Mbayo (born 23 April 1978 in Lubumbashi) is a Congolese footballer who plays as a midfielder for A.F.C. Tubize

Monastère Notre-Dame-des-Sources

Monastère Notre-Dame-des-Sources, Kiswishi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a Benedictine monastery of the Annunciation Congregation.

Twelve years later, the monks again relocated, this time to the hill of Kiswishi, 15 km from Lubumbashi.

Paulin J. Hountondji

After two years teaching in Besancon (France), in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi (Republic of the Congo), he accepted a post at the Université Nationale du Bénin in Cotonou, where he still teaches as Professor of Philosophy.

Rank-size distribution

For instance, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the capital, Kinshasa, is more than eight times larger than the second-largest city, Lubumbashi.

Robert Rothschild

After the independence of the Congo from Belgium in 1960, Katanga, the richest of the six provinces of the Belgian Congo seceded on 11 July, and the Belgians decided to move to Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) in Katanga.


Bismack Biyombo

Biyombo, who was born in Lubumbashi, was discovered by the former Jordanian and Angolan and current Portuguese national team head coach, Mário Palma, at the age of 16 at a youth tournament in Yemen.

Georges Minsay Booka

In 2007 there was an ownership dispute over the Kalukundi Mine when a DRC company named Akam Mining claimed it had bought control of Swanmines, the holding company, and this claim was upheld in a superior court in Lubumbashi.

Jean Bosco Mwenda

Bosco was born in 1930 at Bunkeya, a village near Likasi (then called Jadotville), Haut-Katanga District in then Belgian Congo, but lived most of his life in Lubumbashi, where in addition to playing music he had a job in a bank and with the local mining company, managed other bands, and owned a hotel on the Zambian border.

Kabika Tshilolo

Marie-Jeanne Kabika Tshilolo (born 1949 in Élisabethville, Katanga) is a French language writer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Lualaba River

Its River sourceheadwaters are in the country's far southeastern corner near Musofi and Lubumbashi in Katanga Province, next to Zambia.

Monastère Notre-Dame-des-Sources

Established in 1944 in Katanga Province, the monastic community was relocated to Kiswishi (Kisuishi), around 17 km from Lubumbashi, in the early 1960s.