Qualla: Lulenge https://qualla.com/lulenge en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/f/3/lulenge-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lulenge https://qualla.com/lulenge Lulenge: Introduction https://qualla.com/lulenge/ Photo credit Mikebrown7, CC BY-SA 4.0. Altitudes in the northeast of Lulenge reach 2,000 meters. From those heights you can see the Mitumba range running south toward Lake Tanganyika and east toward Burundi. From those heights, you can also see a great deal of pain. Since the First Congo War ended in 1997, this one sector of Fizi Territory in South Kivu has been fought over by militias, governments, neighboring states, and by the communities that live here themselves. Lulenge holds roughly 187,806 people in 5,530 square kilometers. It is one of the places where the term 'protracted crisis' stops being useful, because it describes a generation.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/f/3/lulenge-wp/kwf3-lulenge-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lulenge: Mountains and Sectors https://qualla.com/lulenge/ Photo credit Mikebrown7, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lulenge is one of four sectors that make up Fizi Territory, in the South Kivu Province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the second-largest sector in the territory, after Ngandja, at about 5,530 square kilometers. Its administrative center is Kilembwe. The te...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/f/3/lulenge-wp/kwf3-lulenge-mountains-and-sectors.mp3 0:06 2 full Lulenge: Communities and Cultural Complexity https://qualla.com/lulenge/ Photo credit Mikebrown7, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lulenge was a historic chieftaincy, and it has always held more than one community. The Babuyu arrived first; the Bembe came later, moving from the mountains to occupy remaining land because the Babuyu population was sparse. To the north and east of the sector, patrilineal agro-p...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/f/3/lulenge-wp/kwf3-lulenge-communities-and-cultural-complexity.mp3 0:06 3 full Lulenge: Waves of Refuge, Waves of Trouble https://qualla.com/lulenge/ Photo credit Mikebrown7, CC BY-SA 4.0. Between 1937 and 1959, Fizi Territory witnessed the arrival of Rwandan refugees escaping unrest in their homeland. On 21 September 1953, acting administrator Van Caester of Fizi and Jean Schwall, assistant administrator of Mwenga Territory, met at the Kakwela and Nakabunga mounta...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/f/3/lulenge-wp/kwf3-lulenge-waves-of-refuge-waves-of-trouble.mp3 0:06 4 full Lulenge: The Modern Conflicts https://qualla.com/lulenge/ Photo credit Mikebrown7, CC BY-SA 4.0. The First Congo War brought the sector into the orbit of the broader regional conflict that has never really ended. In November 2021, the emergence of the Ngumino and Twirwaneho militias sharpened the ethnic tensions between Babembe and Banyamulenge populations. Verbal and physic...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/f/3/lulenge-wp/kwf3-lulenge-the-modern-conflicts.mp3 0:06 5 full Lulenge: The M23 Shadow https://qualla.com/lulenge/ Photo credit Sputink, CC BY-SA 4.0. In August 2023, the Rwandan-backed M23 insurgency was reported to be liaising with the Twirwaneho in the highlands of Minembwe - a town located within Lulenge sector itself. A report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that these interactions could open a second front...

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