Mongala (proposed province)

Mongala Province is one of the twenty-five provinces which form the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From 1963–1966, it was a province known as Moyen-Congo, but it was reintegrated into Équateur province under Mobutu; it was only re-recognized as a province after the approvement of the 2006 Constitution, along with fourteen other provinces which were then approved.

It is located at the northwest of the country on the Congo river, and borders Tshopo, Bas-Uele, Nord-Ubangi, Sud-Ubangi, Équateur and Tshuapa.

The capital of Mongala is the town of Lisala.

Presidents (later governors) of Moyen-Congo

• 6 April 1963 – June 1964 Laurent Eketebi (s.a.)
  • (de facto from 15 September 1962)
• April 1963 – 30 July 1963 Denis Akundji
  • (president of secessionist province of Bumba)
• 23 June 1964 – 10 August 1965 Augustin Engwanda
• 10 August 1965 – 25 April 1966 Denis Sakombi (born 1929, died 1985)

Territories

• Bongandanga
• Bumba, major town and site of a former secessionist state (1963) in the province.
• Lisala

See also

• Yambuku