As Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Reconstruction, in December 2008 he spoke enthusiastically of the potential of the Moto gold mines project near the town of Watsa to provide both direct and indirect benefits to the country.
Watsa was the location of the VI battalion of the Force Publique in the 1940s and 1950s.
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In January and February 2011 the Lord's Resistance Army again attacked people in the territories of Dungu, Faradje, Niangara and Watsa, causing 33,000 people to be displaced.