Kalemie

History

From 1886 to 1891, the Society of Missionaries of Africa had founded catholic missions at the north and south ends of Lake Tanganyika. Léopold Louis Joubert, a French soldier and armed auxiliary, was dispatched by Archbishop Charles Lavigerie's Society of Missionaries of Africa to protect the missionaries. The missionaries abandoned three of the new stations due to attacks by Tippu Tip and Rumaliza. By 1891 the Arab slave traders had control of the entire western shore of the lake, apart from the region defended by Joubert around Mpala and St Louis de Mrumbi. The anti-slavery expedition under Captain Alphonse Jacques—financed by the Belgian Anti-Slavery Society—came to the relief of Joubert on 30 October 1891. When the Jacques expedition arrived Joubert's garrison was down to about two hundred men, poorly armed with "a most miscellaneous assortment of chassepots, Remingtons and muzzle-loaders, without suitable cartridges." He also had hardly any medicine left. Captain Jacques asked Joubert to remain on the defensive while his expedition moved north. On 30 December 1891 Captain Alphonse Jacques' anti-slavery expedition founded the military post of Albertville on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and tried to put an end to the Arab slave trade in the region. Albertville was located south of the Lukuga River. Sergeant Alexis Vrithoff was killed on 5 April 1892 when defending Albertville against an attack by Arab slavers under Rumaliza. His troops, based at Kataki, surrounded Albertville on that day and besieged the outpost for several months, from 16 August 1892 until 1 January 1893. Eventually, Rumaliza's forces had to retreat because of the arrival of the Long-Duvivier-Demol Anti-Slavery expedition, a relief column sent from Brussels at captain Alphonse Jacques's aide.…

Most-observed species

• India Almond

  Terminalia catappa L. · Magnoliopsida
  2
• Armoured Catfish

  Auchenoglanis occidentalis (Valenciennes, 1840) · Animalia
  1
• Mastacembelus ophidium Günther, 1894

  Mastacembelus ophidium Günther, 1894 · Animalia
  1
• Sleek Lates

  Lates stappersii (Boulenger, 1914) · Animalia
  1
• Lake Tanganyika sardine

  Limnothrissa miodon (Boulenger, 1906) · Animalia
  1

Most recent

• M 4 — 2023-11-06
  69 km SSE of Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• M 4.2 — 2022-10-19
  49 km ESE of Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• M 4.4 — 2020-09-11
  63 km E of Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• M 4.3 — 2020-05-31
  80 km WSW of Kigoma, Tanzania
• M 4.5 — 2019-06-10
  56 km NNE of Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• M 5.3 — 2017-04-29
  83 km ESE of Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo