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Likasi

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Likasi

Town in Shaba province, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), 140 km/87 mi northwest of Lubumbashi; population (2004 est) 367,200. It is one of the country's largest cobalt- and copper-processing centres with associated chemical industries. The town was known as Jadotville until 1966.

Belgian explorers first discovered copper here in 1892 but the town was not founded until 1917.



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The Chinese man was shot dead in broad daylight in the town of Likasi late Friday, witnesses told
Chinese, Lebanese men among 13 dead in DR Congo crime wave by AFP / AFP Global Edition
I would like to return to Likasi if it were not for the fact that I was nearly killed there.
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