Bunia

Bunia , territory of Irumu, is the chief town of the Ituri, belonging to the province Orientale in Democratic republic of Congo. The Ituri river runs with 20 kilometers in the south of the locality, where it receives a modest affluent, Shari. Bunia is an important point of passage on the road which connects Kisangani to Kampala Uganda.

Altitude: 1.200 Mr. Situation: 696 km of Kisangani, 200 km of Blessed, 751 km of Kampala, 667 km of Juba and 496 km of Isiro.

The locality was the theater of bloody confrontations during the summer 2003 between the ethnos groups Lendu and Hema perpetrated by the Union of the Congolese patriots as well as the rebellious generals Nkundabatware and Mutebesi of the Congolese Rassemblement for the democracy (RCD).

In August 2003, a European force under French command, the Artémis operation was spread in Bunia in order to make safe the airport and the center town. This operation saw the deployment of more than 1.800 soldiers coming from ten country. This operation of European initiative aimed to stabilize the sedentary conditions and to improve the humane situation while waiting for that the Mission of Observation of the United Nations in Congo (MONUC) does not reinforce its device in the area.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

Chart of the tribes of Ituri
detailed Chart of Bunia
Operation Artémis

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