South-Kivu
See also: Kivu (homonymy)
The South-Kivu is a province of the Democratic republic of Congo. Its capital is Bukavu. It close the province to the North-Kivu in north, the Maniema in the west, and the Katanga in the south. In the east, it close the Rwanda, the Burundi, and the Tanzania.
Policy
The current governor is called Célestin Cibalonza and the vice-governor Leon Mumate Nyamatomwa since January 24th, 2007.Geography-hydrography
History
Pre-colonial period - Bami
Colonization and the evangelization (Missionaries)
Decolonization - disorders
Under the Second republic
The war of Jean-Schramm
The First Rwandan invasion under the AFDL
The Second Rwandan invasion - creation of the RCD
Popular resistance or movement May-May
Economy
Culture
Humane situation
In spite of the official end of the Second war of Congo in 2002, continuous population of the South-Kivu to undergo the bandings armed which makes the law in the cities and campaigns. According to the special protractor of the the United Nations on the violences made to the women, Yakin Ertürk, the foreign militiamans (Rwandan being hidden in Congo after being implied in the Genocide in Rwanda) would be responsible for the majority of the crimes committed against the women of the South-Kivu, who recall by their methods the actions of the Interahamwe. But the army and the police force of DRC would be authors of almost 20% of the exactions.
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