Watsa, Haut-Uele Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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🇨🇩 Watsa is a community in the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, administrative centre of the Watsa Territory. It is served by Watsa Airport, a grass airstrip 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the town.

Watsa was the location of the VI battalion of the Force Publique in the 1940s and 1950s.

Between 1998 and 2000, co-circulating Marburg virus and Ravn virus caused 154 cases of Marburg virus disease and 128 deaths among illegal gold miners in Watsa and the nearby Durba Mine. In January and February 2011 the Lords Resistance Army attacked people in the territories of Dungu, Faradje, Niangara and Watsa, causing 33,000 people to be displaced. They were slow to return due to the feeble response of government security forces.

Divisions The territory is divided into sectors and chiefdoms: • Andobi Chiefdom • Kebo Chiefdom • Ateru Chiefdom • Andikofa Chiefdom • Gombari Sector • Mari-Minza Chiefdom • Walese Chiefdom • Mangbutu Sector • Kibali Sector.

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Watsa has a population of over 27,308 people. Watsa also forms one of the centres of the wider Haut-Uele Province which has a population of over 1,920,867 people. Watsa is situated 322 km east of Isiro.

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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Watsa has links with:

🇹🇿 Dodoma, Tanzania
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Antipodal to Watsa is: -150.465,-3.037

Locations Near: Watsa 29.5355,3.03716

🇺🇬 Arua 30.9,3.033 d: 151.5  

🇨🇩 Bunia 30.25,1.567 d: 181.8  

🇨🇩 Isiro 27.617,2.783 d: 214.9  

🇸🇸 Juba 31.6,4.85 d: 305.1  

🇺🇬 Gulu 32.283,2.767 d: 306.6  

🇨🇩 Butembo 29.283,0.15 d: 322.3  

🇺🇬 Mbarara 30.65,-0.6 d: 423  

🇺🇬 Lwengo 31.45,-0.383 d: 435.8  

🇺🇬 Wakiso 32.467,0.383 d: 439.5  

🇺🇬 Nansana 32.538,0.379 d: 445.7  

Antipodal to: Watsa -150.465,-3.037

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 18399.8  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 17466.9  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 17434.1  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 17386.6  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 17294.1  

🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 17275.1  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 17273.9  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 17273.7  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 17192  

🇺🇸 Pearl City -157.969,21.394 d: 17178.3  

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