Watsa Territory
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Watsa Territory is an administrative area in the Haut-Uélé province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The administrative center is the town of Watsa.
Security issues
During the Second Congo War (1998-2003), in August 1998, Ugandan troops occupied areas of Haut-Uélé including the town of Durba, the site of the Gorumbwa, Durba and Agbarabo gold mines. Almost one ton of gold was extracted during the four-year period of occupation, worth about $9 million at the time.{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1H6Gjb7KzLcC&pg=PA15
|page=15
|title=Democratic Republic of Congo, the curse of gold, Volume 2
|author=Human Rights Watch
|publisher=Human Rights Watch |year=2005
|ISBN=1-56432-332-3}}
At the end of September 2009, fighters from the Lord's Resistance Army LRA combatants were said to have attacked a number
of villages in the Durba/Watsa mining area.{{cite web
|url=http://www.ipisresearch.be/maps/Orientale/20100322_MappingOrientale.pdf
|title=Mapping Conflict Motives: Province Orientale (DRC)
|author=Steven Spittaels & Filip Hilgert
|date=17 March 2010
|publisher=IPIS
|accessdate=2011-10-23}}
As of April 2010 Watsa Territory was thought to have about 13,960 Internally Displaced People.{{cite web
|url=http://www.rdc-humanitaire.net/rdchbis/IMG/pdf/ochadrc-fcC
|title=Population Movements in Eastern DR Congo
|date=January–March 2010
|publisher=OCHA
|accessdate=2011-10-23}}
Divisions
The territory is divided into sectors and chiefdoms:{{cite web|url=http://www.rgc.cd/doctech/UNDP-GIS-25_RDC_administratif.pdf
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401040116/http://rgc.cd/doctech/UNDP-GIS-25_RDC_administratif.pdf
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=2010-04-01
|title=Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo|author=X. Blaes
|publisher=PNUD-SIG |date=October 2008 |accessdate=2011-11-02}}