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Mbuji-Mayi (əmb

`jē-mī`yē), formerly Bakwanga (bäkwäng`gä), city (1984 pop. 486,235), capital of Kasai-Oriental province, S central Congo (Kinshasa), on the Sankuru River. A commercial center in Luba country, it handles most of the industrial diamonds produced in the Congo. After the Congo attained independence (1960) the city's population grew rapidly with the immigration of Luba people from other parts of the country. From 1960 to 1962 it was the capital of the secessionist Mining State of South Kasai Kasai , former province, c.124,000 sq mi (321,160 sq km), S central Congo (Kinshasa). Luluabourg (present Kananga) was the capital. Between the Kasai and the Sankuru rivers the Kuba kingdom of the Shongo people existed from the early 17th cent.
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Mbuji-Mayi

(Bakwanga Until 1966) a city in Zaýre on the Bushimaie River, the administrative center of Kasai Oriental Province. Population, 256,000(1970). Highway junction. Mbuji Mayi is an industrial diamond mining center (12-15 million carats a year). Its electrical power comes from the Tshala and Yang hydroelectric power plants on the Lubilash River.

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In return, Zimbabwe garrisoned the diamond town of Mbuji-Mayi to make it safe for the Kabila government.

Without Congo's diamonds, World War II could not have been won by Roberts, Janine / New African

A Congolese government spokesman, would only confirm that seven people had been killed after being ''ejected from the plane'' at an altitude of 33,000 feet near the southern city of Mbuji-Mayi.

Survivor tells of plane cargo door horror by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

Up until mid-1999 it seemed as if the Goma faction might march all the way to Kinshasa, but something -- probably more than Zimbabwean troops -- stopped them just short of the strategic and diamond keystone of Mbuji-Mayi.

FROM LEOPOLD TO KING LAURENT by MOORE, DAVID / Arena Magazine