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Likasi (lĭkäs`ē), formerly Jadotville (zhädōvēl`), city (1984 pop. 213,862), Katanga province, SE Congo (Kinshasa). It is a major industrial, mining, and transportation center. Copper and cobalt are mined and refined, and cement, chemicals, and beverages are manufactured. The city has an archaeological and mineral museum.

Likasi

a city in the S Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Za?re): a centre of copper and cobalt production. Pop.: 345 000 (2005 est.)

Likasi

(until 1966, Jadotville), a city in southeast Zaire, in the region of Shaba. Population, 102,200 (1966). A railroad station on the Lubumbashi-Ilebo line; there is an airport.

Likasi is the center of a copper and cobalt ore mining region. The city is an important center for nonferrous metallurgy: its electrometallurgical factories produce copper, cobalt, and cobalt alloys (in Likasi’s suburbs of Shituru and Panda). Zinc concentrates are processed in the city. There are also enterprises of the chemical industry (including a sulfuric acid factory) and of the building materials industry. Likasi was founded in 1917.

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The Chinese man was shot dead in broad daylight in the town of Likasi late Friday, witnesses told AFP.

Chinese, Lebanese men among 13 dead in DR Congo crime wave by AFP / AFP Global Edition

I would like to return to Likasi if it were not for the fact that I was nearly killed there.

Africa's last, worst hope: a continent that withstood European ... by Hitchens, Peter / The American Conservative

MKT: My actions in destroying illegal factories in Likasi were motivated by concerns over pollution.

We want to attract investors: as the governor of the richest ... by African Business

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