Qualla: Tanganyika Province https://qualla.com/tanganyika-province 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/g/c/tanganyika-province-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tanganyika Province https://qualla.com/tanganyika-province Tanganyika Province: Introduction https://qualla.com/tanganyika-province/ Photo credit Tyron Amanpour, CC BY-SA 4.0. There is a phrase that appears in United Nations reports from the 2006 period of the Second Congo War: 'the death triangle of Manono-Mitwaba-Pweto.' Three towns in what is now Tanganyika Province, connected by bad roads through Mai Mai militia country, where neither the Congolese army nor the UN peacekeepers had reliable control. An estimated five to six thousand armed fighters, many of them small independent bands that had devolved into common banditry, operated in the area. That was one face of Tanganyika. The other is Lake Tanganyika itself - the longest freshwater lake in the world, fringed on the Congolese side by fishing villages, the port city of Kalemie, and forested mountains rising sharply from the water's edge. Today's Tanganyika Province is both of these things, trying to become more of the second and less of the first.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/g/c/tanganyika-province-wp/kwgc-tanganyika-province-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tanganyika Province: Born From a Split https://qualla.com/tanganyika-province/ Photo credit Samuel.Babikene, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tanganyika is one of the 26 provinces the Democratic Republic of the Congo carved out of its older map in the 2015 repartitioning. Alongside Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, and Lualaba, it emerged from the dissolution of the former Katanga Province, which had been one of the most econ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/g/c/tanganyika-province-wp/kwgc-tanganyika-province-born-from-a-split.mp3 0:06 2 full Tanganyika Province: The War That Made the Triangle https://qualla.com/tanganyika-province/ Photo credit Tyron Amanpour, CC BY-SA 4.0. In July 2006, during the dragged-out end of the Second Congo War, Katanga Province was fractured by fighting between the Rwandan-backed Rally for Congolese Democracy-Goma (RCD-G) and the Kinshasa-government forces, which were assisted by local Mayi Mayi fighters. Over time some o...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/g/c/tanganyika-province-wp/kwgc-tanganyika-province-the-war-that-made-the-triangle.mp3 0:06 3 full Tanganyika Province: Kalemie and the Lake https://qualla.com/tanganyika-province/ Photo credit Tyron Amanpour, CC BY-SA 4.0. Kalemie sits on Lake Tanganyika's western shore, a deepwater port town of perhaps 200,000 people that has been the province's anchor through every administrative incarnation. From here, ferries cross to Kigoma in Tanzania, carrying passengers and cargo between two of Africa's lar...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/g/c/tanganyika-province-wp/kwgc-tanganyika-province-kalemie-and-the-lake.mp3 0:06 4 full Tanganyika Province: Governors and the Work of Peace https://qualla.com/tanganyika-province/ Photo credit Abdoulma, CC BY-SA 4.0. The political history of Tanganyika's leadership reads as a catalogue of the region's turbulence. Prosper Mwamba-Ilunga served twice as president of the old Nord-Katanga province in the early 1960s. Jason Sendwe - a major figure in the Balubakat political movement that opposed Ka...

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