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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 , municipality, Kigoma prov., W Tanzania, suburb of Kigoma city, on Lake Tanganyika. Ujiji was an important settlement of Arab and Swahili ivory and slave traders between c.1850 and c.1890. The explorer Henry M.
..... 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.

Kigoma

a city in western Tanzania; administrative center of the region of Kigoma. Population 21,400 (1967). Kigoma is a port on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. It is the terminus of the Dar es Salaam-Kigoma railroad line and a commercial center for rice, cotton, and vegetable oil. The Gombe preserve, which provides protection for the chimpanzee, buffalo, and other animals, is located near Kigoma. The city has wood-products, metalworking, and food-processing industries.

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and evoke memories from your travels with these Kigoma Trunks, left LOOK: The Starbay collection from Barker and Stonehouse, above, and The Navajo range, below, are ideal choices for a travel look

bring the world into your room; IF like me you're inspired by ... by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)

Experts have been deployed to five regions closer to the DRC, which are Mbeya, Kagera, Rukwa, Kigoma and Mwanza," health ministry spokesman Nsachris Mwamwaja told AFP.

Tanzania on Ebola alert by AFP / AFP Global Edition

On the remote eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika lies the quiet fishing village of Kigoma where the Kanyovu grower's cooperative is located.

Telling a story with coffee: have you ever looked at something that ... by Beattie, Phillip / Tea & Coffee Trade Journal