Lusambo

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| subdivision_name1 = Sankuru

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| p2 = Lupembe

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| leader_name = Louis Manga{{cite news |title=Sankuru: la population encouragée à collaborer avec le nouveau maire de Lusambo |url=https://acpcongo.com/index.php/2023/03/22/sankuru-la-population-encouragee-a-collaborer-avec-le-nouveau-maire-de-lusambo/ |access-date=8 April 2023 |agency=Agence congolaise de presse (ACP) |date=22 March 2023 |language=fr}}

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Lusambo ({{langx|sw|Mji wa Lusambo}}) is the capital city of Sankuru province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town lies north of the confluence of the Sankuru River and the Lubi River.National Geographic Atlas of the World: Revised Sixth Edition, National Geographic Society, 1992[http://www.maplandia.com/democratic-republic-congo/kasai-oriental/lusambo/ www.maplandia.com][http://www.geonames.org/210379/lusambo.html www.geonames.org] Lusambo is served by Lusambo Airport.

File:A native band owned by Lukala, (chiefteners) at Lusambo Wellcome L0063354.jpg

In 1890 Lusambo was chosen by Paul Le Marinel as the main Belgian base in the Kasai region to defend against the Arab or Swahili traders in slaves and ivory who came from the east. The station would soon become one of the most important military posts of the Congo Free State with a permanent staff of seventeen whites, six hundred native soldiers and four artillery pieces.{{cite book |url=http://www.ethesis.net/katanga/katanga_hfst_7.htm#blad13 |title=De eerste Europese ontdekkingsreizen in Katanga 1797-1897 |first=Pieter |last=De Coster |language=Dutch |chapter= Biografie van Paul Le Marinel |year=1997}}

In 1999 the new Kabila government and its ally, the Zimbabwean government of Robert Mugabe, claimed that U.S. mercenaries were helping Ugandan and Rwandan-backed rebel forces who had surrounded 700 Zimbabwean troops near Lusambo during the Second Congo War.{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Alex Duval|title=Foreign troops under siege as war rages in Congo, four months after peace deal|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/foreign-troops-under-siege-as-war-rages-in-congo-four-months-after-peace-deal-739063.html|access-date=16 June 2016|work=The Independent|date=2 December 1999}}