BUKAVU

bookäˈvoo, city (1984 pop. 167,950), capital of Sud-Kivu province, E Congo (Kinshasa), a port on Lake Kivu. It is an administrative, commercial, and transportation center. Tea and coffee are processed. The city was founded in 1901 and was formerly known as Costermansville. The city has a teachers college and a school of mines. The Mururu hydroelectric plant is there.

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books on: Bukavu  - 93 results

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Christian Missionizing and Social Transformation: A History of Conflict and Change in Eastern Zaire
Book by Jack E. Nelson; Praeger Publishers, 1992
Subjects: Baptists--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Church Controversies--Baptists, Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965, Hurlburt, Paul--Contributions In Indigenous Church Administration, Indigenous Church Administration--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--20th Century
...urban markets in Stanleyville, Goma, and Bukavu began and the production of Arabica coffee...Tanzania by rail and proceeding on up to Bukavu, in Kivu, by boat and truck. From there...Gisenyi, in Rwanda, and then by boat to Bukavu, where prospects for a station 15 km...
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Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa: Conflict Roots, Mass Violence, and Regional War
Book by Christian P. Scherrer; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Burundi--Ethnic Relations--History--20th Century, Genocide--Rwanda, Low-Intensity Conflicts (Military Science)--Congo (Democratic Republic), Rwanda--Ethnic Relations--History--20th Century, Violence--Congo (Democratic Republic)
...Rwanda in all directions. 1.5 million fled to Zaire: 850,000 to northern Kivu Goma and 630,000 to southern Kivu Uvira, Bukavu . More than 600,000 went to Tanzania, 270,000 to Burundi, and 10,000 to Uganda see UNHCR 1994 . Mobutu and his kleptocratic...
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A Review of the Natural Resources of the African Continent
Book by Unesco; Unesco, 1963
...reprinted in the proceedings of the Third International Conference for the Protection of the Fauna and Flora of Africa, held at Bukavu, in 1953, on the initiative of the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the Sahara. More recently...
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Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century
Book by Johan Pottier; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Rwanda--Ethnic Relations--History--20th Century, Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994
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Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa
Book by Carol Myers-Scotton; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Code Switching (Linguistics)--Africa, Markedness (Linguistics), Sociolinguistics--Africa
...Kampala, claimed to speak at least some Swahili. And today, in Bukavu in eastern Zaire, where almost everyone knows and uses a version of Swahili every day, a language shift to the Bukavu version of Swahili as a mother tongue is under way Wilt...
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journal articles on: Bukavu  - 23 results

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Local Violence, National Peace? Postwar "settlement" in the Eastern D.r. Congo (2003-2006)
Journal article by Séverine Autesserre; African Studies Review, Vol. 49, 2006
Subjects: African studies, Civil war, Conflicts, Field study, Humanitarian aid, Mineral resources, Peace, Political power, Politics, Violence
...transition-notably after the May-June 2004 fighting in Bukavu and the August 2004 massacre in Gatumba-Rwanda...and Mutebusi during the 2004 conflict in Bukavu. They provided the renegade leaders with...review of press articles, 2003-6) .8 The Bukavu crisis also illustrated the Congolese...
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Images of Power, Images of Humiliation: Congolese "Colonial" Sculpture for Sale in Rwanda
Journal article by Tom Turner; African Arts, Vol. 38, 2005
Subjects: African sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, African--Criticism and interpretation
...may well be a trope signifying (from a Bukavu perspective) the countryside, the wild, the pagan, as opposed to Bukavu, the urban, the civilized, the Catholic...Maniema is nationalist, Lumumbist, while Bukavu is Catholic, European-dominated, particularistic...
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On Behalf of Ordinary People: Bridging the Gap between High Politics and Simple Tragedies
Journal article by Danielle de Lame; African Studies Review, Vol. 48, 2005
Subjects: Blacks, Genocide, Humanitarian aid, Politics, Refugees
...contextualize what we have learned about the Bukavu refugee camps. Rwanda is a small, landlocked...refugees crossing from southwest Rwanda into Bukavu. Between mid-July and mid-August 1994...Zaire) and three hundred thousand in Bukavu. About six hundred thousand had settled...
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Sons of Which Soil? the Language and Politics of Autochthony in Eastern D.r. Congo
Journal article by Stephen Jackson; African Studies Review, Vol. 49, 2006
Subjects: Citizenship, Colonies & territories, Immigration, Language, Politics, Violence, War
...to me by a Congolese relief worker in Bukavu in 1999 is typical: entitled "Le Congo...tension...." (Interview with "Arthur," Bukavu, April 11, 2002) No accurate census exists...Banya-Mulenge-Immigres de la Derniere Heure," July 1999, Bukavu), assert that the name properly belonged...
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Suffering and Survival in Central Africa
Journal article by Catharine Newbury; African Studies Review, Vol. 48, 2005
Subjects: African history, Blacks, Genocide, Human rights, Politics, Refugees
...difficult conditions in the camps near Bukavu, South Kivu, she stayed in Zaire because...leaders created a Collective of NGOs in Bukavu not only to improve life in the camps...the refugee camps and the population of Bukavu, there was hope. After all, the pen and...
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magazine articles on: Bukavu  - 43 results

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Congo on the Edge: After Its Elections, Will This Gigantic African Nation Begin a New, Normalised Future-As the International Community Fervently Hopes-Or Will It Implode? Michela Wrong Reports from Kinshasa
Magazine article by Michela Wrong; New Statesman, Vol. 135, May 8, 2006
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa)--Political aspects, Elections--Political aspects, Politics--Analysis
...Michela Wrong In the lakeside town of Bukavu, a nervy day followed a violent night...killed by looting soldiers. Come daybreak, Bukavus students showed their exasperation the...stationed at a seminary on the outskirts of Bukavu. "Since 1990 there has been no state...
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Shaky Transition
Magazine article by Duncan Woodside; The World Today, Vol. 60, July 2004
Subjects: Congo-Peoples Republic of Congo, Coups d etat, Government, Kabila, Joseph, Minority & ethnic groups, National security, Transitions
...it appears that the renegade seizure of Bukavu - a town which sits in the extreme east...AGGRESSION To a certain extent the trouble in Bukavu and its negative implications for the...whose forces pushed the government out of Bukavu for a week in early June, were motivated...
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The Bitter Value of Silence
Magazine article by Michela Wrong; New Statesman, Vol. 136, July 2, 2007
Subjects: Journalists--Biography, Maheshe, Serge
...was shot dead in the lakeside town of Bukavu. I met Serge Maheshe on a trip there last...politics before going dancing in one of Bukavus burrow-like nightclubs, where Serge was...that poisons daily life in towns such as Bukavu today, just as it did under Mobutu: the...
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The Profits of Misery
Magazine article by Francoise Misser; African Business, October 1994
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa), Crime, Military offenses--Reports, Political corruption--Reports
...between mid-July and the end of August to the areas of Goma and Bukavu, has had extremely adverse effects on the local economy. Eye...and space have cut down trees over huge areas of land. In Bukavu, public squares and school grounds have been squatted on by...
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Conundrum in the Congo: Three Years Ago, News That the Electronics Industry's Demand for Tantalum Was Fuelling the Civil War in the Congo Led to Calls for a Worldwide Embargo on Congolese Tantalum. but Was a Ban Really the Right Course of Action?
Magazine article by Charlie Furniss; Geographical, Vol. 76, July 2004
Subjects: Civil war--Congo (Kinshasa), Civil war--Economic aspects, Congo (Kinshasa)--Economic aspects, Congo (Kinshasa)--Military aspects, International trade--Ethical aspects, Tantalum--International aspects, Tantalum--Prices and rates
...lecturer at a rural-development college in Bukavu. "If the miners refused, they would simply...the Durban Process (DP) committee in Bukavu was adding the final touches to an artisanal...mining in Congo and is opening an office in Bukavu to certify coltan that is mined outside...
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newspaper articles on: Bukavu  - 26 results

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Divided Army Puts Congo Peace Accord at Risk of Collapse; Loyal Soldiers Retake Bukavu after Mutiny
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 10, 2004
Subjects: Kabila, Laurent
...Risk of Collapse; Loyal Soldiers Retake Bukavu after Mutiny. Byline: Carter Dougherty, THE WASHINGTON TIMES BUKAVU, Congo - The fall last week of this...renegades marched in from the north, seized Bukavu and went into an orgy of pillage, rape...
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Congo: A Country That's Broken
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 8, 2009
...Byline: Betsy Pisik, THE WASHINGTON TIMES BUKAVU, Congo -- To understand what is wrong...they promote corruption. A major in the Bukavu police force makes $50 a month, while...see the nurse at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu in South Kivu region. The hospital, which...
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Bottleneck at the Border as Refugees Swarm Back Home
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 17, 1996
...temporary with a further 250,000 refugees in Bukavu - 150 miles to the south - expected to...further 380,000 remain in makeshift camps at Bukavu and Uvira. The mass return of Hutus...temporary with a further 250,000 refugees in Bukavu - 150 miles to the south - expected to...
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Rerun of a Familiar Scenario in Zaire
Newspaper article by Arnaud De Borchgrave; The Washington Times, May 13, 1997
Subjects: Kabila, Laurent
...Kabila was one of them), had surrounded Bukavu, at the southern end of Lake Kivu. At...the noise to convince the Simbas that Bukavu was not only resisting, but going on the...without firing a shot. The "liberation" of Bukavu was hailed by government propaganda as...
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U.N. Refugee Agency Seeks Aid in Zaire: Mobotu Forces Bomb Tutsi Rebels
Newspaper article by Toni Marshall; The Washington Times, February 19, 1997
Subjects: Congo
...Mr. Bijleveld said he did not know whether the bombing in Bukavu yesterday was an isolated incident. "Unfortunately, we are...launched their initial attacks against the rebel-held towns of Bukavu, Shabunda and Walikale. After falling back earlier this year...
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encyclopedia articles on: Bukavu  - 3 results

 
 
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Bukavu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUKAVU booka voo, city (1984 pop. 167,950), capital of Sud-Kivu province, E Congo (Kinshasa), a port on Lake Kivu. It is an administrative...
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Costermansville
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COSTERMANSVILLE see Bukavu , Congo (Kinshasa). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Congo, Democratic Republic of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the major urban areas include Boma , Bukavu , Kalemie , Kamina , Kananga...short-lived rebellions (notably in Kisangani and Bukavu), and in 1966 an attempted coup by Kimba...involving former rebels occurred in June at Bukavu in E Congo, although the rebels soon dispersed...


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