Mont Amba District

Mont Amba District

Kinshasa districts and communes, Mont Amba in center
Coordinates: 4°21′46″S 15°20′12″E / 4.362758°S 15.336742°E / -4.362758; 15.336742Coordinates: 4°21′46″S 15°20′12″E / 4.362758°S 15.336742°E / -4.362758; 15.336742
Country Democratic Republic of Congo
Province Kinshasa

Mont Amba is one of the four districts that make up the capital city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).[1] It includes the communes (municipalities) of Kisenso, Lemba, Limete, Matete and Ngaba.[2] It lies south of the Congo River, east of the downtown district, and is separated from Tshangu District further to the east by the Ndjili River.[3]

Mont Amba is home to several parts of the University of Kinshasa, including the regional center for nuclear research. As of March 2011, the reactor at this center had not been operational for several years.[4] The Mont Alma Hospital in Lemba is a teaching hospital for the university. In June 2011 the first plastic surgery clinic in the DRC was opened at the hospital, primarily for the treatment of children who had been burned.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Administration urbaine". Ville de Kinshasa. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  2. ↑ "Géographie de Kinshasa". Ville de Kinshasa. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  3. ↑ Trefon, Theodore (2004). Reinventing order in the Congo: how people respond to state failure in Kinshasa. Zed Books. p. xi. ISBN 1-84277-491-3.
  4. ↑ "Situé dans le Centre de recherche nucléaire du Mont Amba". L'Observateur - RDC. 23 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  5. ↑ Diosso Olivier (7 June 2011). "Kinshasa - Le centre hospitalier du Mont Amba doté d'une unité de chirurgie plastique". Le Potentiel. Retrieved 2011-11-28.


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