Qualla: Likasi https://qualla.com/likasi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Likasi https://qualla.com/likasi Likasi: Introduction https://qualla.com/likasi/ Likasi ya Bilima, the residents call it - Likasi of the hills. The highest of them, Karajipopo in the commune of Panda, rises to 1,427 meters. From it you can look across a city of roughly 630,000 people and see the reason the city exists at all: the copper-rich hills of Katanga, dug and redug for more than a century. Likasi sits 120 kilometers by road north of Lubumbashi on the great mineral belt that stretches into Zambia, and its name is woven into both the industrial story of the Belgian Congo and one of the stranger episodes of United Nations peacekeeping history.

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