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Kigoma

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Kigoma

Town and port on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, north of Ujiji, Tanzania, at the western terminal of the railway from Dar es Salaam; population (1998 est) 79,000. It trades in timber, cotton, palm oil, and tobacco.

The town received influxes of refugees in the mid- and late 1990s during civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.
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