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Kigoma (kēgō`mä`), municipality, capital of Kigoma prov., W Tanzania, a port on Lake Tanganyika. It is the terminus of the railroad from Dar-es-Salaam (completed 1914) and is connected by ship with Congo (Kinshasa) and Burundi. There are fisheries and food processing plants. Kigoma was an important settlement of Arab and Swahili ivory and slave traders between c.1850 and c.1890. The region was occupied by the Germans in the 1890s. Kigoma and Ujiji Ujiji (  jē`jē), municipality, Kigoma prov...... Click the link for more information. , to the southeast, were formerly combined into a single municipality. Kigoma was a major focus for refugees from Burundi in 1994–96. |
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The mix of cultural traditions varies across chimp communities, add the scientists, including famed chimp researcher Jane Goodall of Tanzania's Gombe Stream Research Centre in Kigoma. Despite the repatriation of approximately 500,000 Rwandan refugees in 1996, UNHCR continues to provide assistance to 326,000 Burundian and Zairian refugees in camps in Ngara and Kigoma in western Tanzania. The medicine would help prevent an outbreak among the refugees, said Tom Kaptyn of Doctors Without Borders, who asked for the airlift to Kigoma, Tanzania. |
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