Dekese Territory

Dekese Territory is an administrative area of Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In 2010, of 176 such conflicts reported in Kasaï Occidental province, 38 were in Dekese Territory.

[2] In May 2011, after the former governor of Kasai Occidental had been removed from office and a few days before the election of his successor, 40 soldiers arrived in Dekese, first in the town and then spreading out into the territory.

They committed abuses including arbitrary arrests, looting, and rape of women and minors.

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