Bujumbura
Bujumbura (3°22' 34" South, 29°21' 36" Is (- 3.3761111, 29.36)) is the capital of the Burundi. The city is built on the North-eastern banks of the Lac Tanganyika. Bujumbura is more the big city of Burundi (: 300000 inhabitants in 1994), and constitutes its economic, administrative center and for the transportation routes: it is the largest port of Burundi, by which exports forward. Ferries make the shuttle between Bujumbura and Kigoma in Tanzania; Bujumbura also has an airport. Local industry produces cement, textiles and soap.
Bujumbura developed starting from a small village when the German Empire of East Africa establishes a military outpost there. After the First World War, it becomes an administrative center of the Belgian administration of the Ruanda-Urundi under mandate of SDN. Re-elected Usumbura in Bujumbura with the independence of Burundi in 1962, it is the theater of ethnic conflicts between Hutu and Tutsi.
The historical center is a colonial city equipped with a large market, a stage, a large mosque, a cathedral and a university. Among the museums, one can quote the Museum of Natural history and the geological Museum. The place is remarkable by the proximity of the Rusizi national park, of Pierre de Livingstone and Stanley in Mugere, the place visited by David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley 14 days after their first historical meeting with Ujiji, and of the sources of the southernmost affluent the Nile, that the buildings regard as the sources of the Nile.
Track between Mombasa and Bujumbura
Port of Mombasa to the Kenya, until Bujumbura, with the Burundi, a track (the " road 109" ) drains on 1 500 km main part of the exchanges of this part of Eastern Africa.
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