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] This Democratic Republic of the Congo location article is a stub.