Kirundu
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Village
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  Kirundu
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| Coordinates: 0°44′00″S 25°32′00″E / 0.73333°S 25.53333°E / -0.73333; 25.53333 | |
| Country |  DR Congo |
| Province | Tshopo |
| Territory | Ubundu |
| Chiefdom | Kirundu |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (Central Africa Time) |
| Climate | Af |
Kirundu is a settlement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is on the right bank of the Lualaba River, upstream from Ubundu.[1]
In the late nineteenth century the town was capital of a slaving state headed by Kibonge, from the Comoro Islands, who was joined by a young Arab named Said ben Adeb who had been expelled from Nyangwe after his father died.[2] In 1893 the Congo Free State officer Louis Napoléon Chaltin defeated the Swahili/Arab forces at Kirundu and expelled them from the Stanley Falls region.[3]
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