After the city economic meeting was held, the Kitwe city government sent representatives to Lubumbashi for economic exchange activities.
Lubumbashi.
The capital city of Swabia Province in East Africa, formerly one of the four major provinces in the Congo (Gold), and the capital of Katanga Province; even after the Congolese government split Katanga Province into four smaller provinces, Lubumbashi remained the capital of Upper Katanga Province.
The reason the Congolese government split Katanga Province into four provinces was evidently to guard against local separatism.
Kinshasa was the capital of the former Congo, but Kinshasa was too far west in relation to Congo's territory, with weak control over the eastern regions.
