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Mbuji-Mayi

Town and capital of Kasai Oriental province, in south-central Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), located 900 km/560 mi east of Kinshasa; population (2001 est) 874,700. Mbuji-Mayi dates from 1909 when diamonds were found in the area.



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This outbreak rapidly spread to Mbuji Mayi in Eastern Kasai where, as discovered during the outbreak investigation, the first case was in a tradeswoman who had traveled by train to Bukama to buy fish.
About Our Cover In this photo, Kamwala Bijicka, 13, carries a sack full of earth and rocks at the Matempu Mine near Mbuji Mayi, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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