Likasi
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| official_name = Ville de Likasi
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| subdivision_name1 = Haut-Katanga Province
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| p1 = Kikula
| p2 = Likasi
| p3 = Panda
| p4 = Shituru|
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| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Henri Mungoma{{cite web |title=HENRI MUNGOMA installé officiellement comme nouveau maire de la ville de LIKASI |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSJZmBoVlBI |publisher= RCK TV - Likasi |language=fr |format=video |date=27 January 2023}}
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Likasi (formerly official names: Jadotville (French) and Jadotstad (Dutch)) is a city in Haut-Katanga Province, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Demographics
Likasi has a population of around 635,000 (2015). During the 1990s the United Nations set up feeding centres and refugee centres in and around Likasi to assist with the refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Shaba,ACC/SCN Secretariat with Shoham, Jeremy (8 December 1993) {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110524151529/http://www.unscn.org/archives/rnis02/ch3.htm "Current Situation: 11. Shaba Region, Zaire"]}} Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 2 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination, Sub-committee on Nutrition, Geneva whose arrival had increased the population of the town some 41,000.ACC/SCN Secretariat with Shoham, Jeremy (17 October 1994) {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110524151544/http://www.unscn.org/archives/rnis07/ch3.htm "Current Situation: 11. Shaba/Kasai Regions, Zaire"]}} Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 7 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination, Sub-committee on Nutrition, Geneva
History
Shinkolobwe mine, 20 km west of Likasi (then called Jadotville), was described by a 1943 Manhattan Project intelligence report as the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered in the world. The uranium from this mine was used to build the atomic bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.{{cite news |last1=Hogg |first1=Jonny |last2=Ferreira-Marques |first2=Clara |title="Triangle of death" looms over Congo's mining heartlands |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE91I06K/ |access-date=8 February 2024 |work=Reuters |date=19 February 2013}}
In 1961, during the United Nations intervention in the Katanga conflict, a company of Irish UN troops deployed to Jadotville fought valiantly, but was besieged and eventually surrendered to troops loyal to the Katangese Prime Minister Moïse Tshombe.{{cite news |last1=Byrne |first1=Ciaran |title=The True Story of the Heroic Battle That Inspired the New Netflix Film The Siege of Jadotville |url=https://time.com/4408017/the-siege-of-jadotville-the-true-story-netflix-film/ |access-date=8 February 2024 |agency=Time Magazine |date=27 July 2016}}{{cite news |last1=McNalley |first1=Frank |title=Five Irish soldiers took their own lives after Jadotville siege |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/five-irish-soldiers-took-their-own-lives-after-jadotville-siege-1.3893633 |access-date=8 February 2024 |agency=Irish Times |date=15 May 2019}}
Economy
File:Interior of a factory at Jadotville Shituru, Belgian Congo.jpg
Likasi remains a centre for industry, especially mining,[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7965221.stm Harding, Andrew (27 March 2009)"Slowdown blights DR Congo economy"] BBC News, accessed 27 March 2009 and is a transport hub for the surrounding region. There are mines and refineries supplied by nearby deposits of copper and cobalt.Rorison, Sean (2008) "Likasi" Congo: Democratic Republic and Republic Bradt Travel Guides, Chalfont St. Peter, England, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cXJyOKBqJZwC&pg=RA1-PA143 pp. 143-145] {{ISBN|1-84162-233-8}}
A $17 million crushing plant was installed in nearby Kamatanda that became operational at the start of 2019.
The crushed ore is fed to the Heap Leach Unit in Panda, then the copper-containing solution is taken to the electrolysis room at the Shituru Factories in Likasi, where high-quality copper electrodes are produced.{{citation |url=https://business-et-finances.com/le-nouveau-visage-de-gecamines/ |accessdate=2021-09-13 |language=fr
|author=Dolay Tshimanga |title=Le nouveau visage de Gécamines |date=16 April 2019 |location=Likasi |work=Business et Finances}}
There is also an abandoned gold mine in Likasi, which has been commercially depleted but is still dug by artisanal miners.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
Transport
Likasi is served by a station on the national railway system. The trains are mostly cargo trains and not passenger trains.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
Climate
Likasi has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cwa).
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|location = Likasi
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|Jan mean C = 21.4
|Feb mean C = 21.5
|Mar mean C = 21.5
|Apr mean C = 20.9
|May mean C = 18.6
|Jun mean C = 16.2
|Jul mean C = 15.9
|Aug mean C = 18.1
|Sep mean C = 21.3
|Oct mean C = 22.8
|Nov mean C = 22.3
|Dec mean C = 21.7
|year mean C = 20.2
|Jan precipitation mm = 212
|Feb precipitation mm = 205
|Mar precipitation mm = 214
|Apr precipitation mm = 62
|May precipitation mm = 6
|Jun precipitation mm = 0
|Jul precipitation mm = 0
|Aug precipitation mm = 0
|Sep precipitation mm = 8
|Oct precipitation mm = 65
|Nov precipitation mm = 177
|Dec precipitation mm = 226
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|source 1 = Climate-Data.org{{cite web|url=http://en.climate-data.org/location/4594/|title = Climate:Likasi|accessdate = 10 April 2014
|publisher = Climate-Data.org}}
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See also
Notes
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081022082401/http://www.likasi.be/index1024.html Likasi- Jadotville]
{{Haut-Katanga}}
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