The northern grassy plain has better marked valleys. The military campaign against Sasa[a], the powerful leader of the Azande, exposed the true extent of the disease. [26], The Congo Free State was annexed by Belgium as the Belgian Congo in 1908. [14] [17], After taking leave in Europe La Haye returned to Uele, where he was appointed district commissioner on 16 May 1897. [11], At first, some of the sultans were friendly. [12] In 1891 Georges Le Marinel ascended the Bomu River. [27], During the colonial era a railway was constructed through the region from east to west, on which the agricultural road network converged. [5] The Uele District was divided into Bas-Uele (Lower Uele) and Haut-Uele (Upper Uele) by an arrêté royal of 28 March 1912, which divided the Congo into 22 districts. Haut-Uélé, Bas-Uélé, Ituri, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Orientale province. "Customs and Contraband in the Congolese M'Bomu Region", "Monographie Piscicole de la Province Orientale", "The Use Of Arabic As A Written Language In Central Africa The Case Of The Uele Basin (Northern Congo) In The Late Nineteenth Century", "From 'Death Camps' to Cordon Sanitaire: The Development of Sleeping Sickness Policy in the Uele District of the Belgian Congo, 1903–1914", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uele_District&oldid=975692549, Short description with empty Wikidata description, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 August 2020, at 22:02. Haut-Uélé was formed from the Haut-Uélé district whose town of Isiro was elevated to capital city of the new province. Graphic maps of the area around 2° 48' 4" N, 27° 16' 29" E. The Balloon is said to have fallen near the town of Buta, close to Kisangani, in Bas-Uele, Congo," reported local news website Kahawatungu. [21] On 1 July 1910 a court of first instance was established at Niangara to serve Uele District, one of seven in the colony.

In 1912 he was captured and deported to Boma, at the mouth of the Congo. [14] The two posts of Yei and Loka were established to the northeast of Faradje in the arid Lado Enclave on the Nile, leased from the British. The river flows though the district and further west joins the Mbomou River (or Bomu River) to form the Ubangi River, which defined the northeastern border of the Belgian Congo. They stationed soldiers in each marketplace who shot anyone who tried to cross the river. In the reorganization of 1933 Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele were reunited into Uele District, now part of the Stanleyville Province, with some territory to the east transferred to the Kibali-Ituri District. [9] From simple political to detailed satellite map of Isiro, Rungu, Haut-Uele, Haut-Zaire, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [17] [10] In the 1870s the Egyptians decided to strengthen their control of the Bahr al-Ghazal and of the slave and ivory traders operating from there. The Uele is the longest tributary of the Ubangi. The administration responded to an epidemic of sleeping sickness that began in 1904 in the Congo Free State with measures that had been proven against cholera and plague in Europe. The site quoted a local who appeared to have had access to the crash site: An unidentified flying object fell yesterday near the town of Buta (close to Kisangani) in Bas-Uélé. Later, as the Belgians strengthened their grip, some such as Engwetra in 1896 rose in rebellion. Regions of Haut-Uele. The Uele District, shown as the Uellé District on an 1897 map of the Congo Free State, was named after the Uele River.

Some Azande worked for the Sudanese merchants or even visited Sudan, either voluntarily or as slaves. Between 1904 and 1914 they placed those who were infected or suspected of being infected in isolation camps or lazarets, and mapped out the zones of infection. [6] The heads of Uélé Province were:[27], Orientale Province was reconstituted in 1966. The conversions were not always sincere, but some took the religion very seriously and abstained from alcohol, fasted during Ramadan, prayed and adopted Arabic dress. [17], In 1894 Léon Hanolet ascended the Bari River, a right tributary of the Bomu while Théodore Nilis and Charles de la Kethulle ascended the Chinko River, another tributary of the Bomu. This route opened access to the Uele region, although it crossed the territory of the Budja people, who had yet to be pacified. The uprising of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi, against the Egyptian government in 1881 weakened the influence of the Arabs. Get free map for your website. The Belgians carried a boat to the Nile in sections, the Van de Kerckhoven, which they assembled and launched on the Nile. The capital of the province is the town of Isiro. On 10 January 1896 he met Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, who was undertaking an expedition against Bili. Choose from wide the range of maps for destinations in Bas-Uele. These visitors entered from the north or the east rather than the Congo River. Around 1880 many Azande chiefs placed themselves at the disposal of the Egyptians, who were represented by Europeans such as Frank Lupton [de] and Romolo Gessi, in part to fight the slavers.

Much of this route was by foot, since the rivers were impassible. [1] The combined Ubangi–Uele length is about 2,270 kilometres (1,410 mi).

[2] Haut-Uélé was formed from the Haut-Uélé district whose town of Isiro was elevated to capital city of the new province. Savannas with Encephalartos septentrionalis occupy the central part while the east and west are characterized by savannas of Lophira. The territories were Bondo, Ango, Dungu, Manbetu (headquarters in Paulis), Buta, Aketi, Poko and Niangara.