Kongba District

All towns and villages are involved in mining activities and have large expatriate populations from countries such as Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

Livelihood activities include farming (slash-and-burn), alluvial mining of diamonds and gold and hunting of bush meat.

There are two types of communities: the more permanent and stable communities - which have developed retail services, palm oil production, cocoa and coffee cultivations and more established houses (with zinc roofs), and the unstable transient towns or camps which are newly established or only inhabited in the dry season when mining activities take place.

On this basis, six forest edge villages in Grand Camp area and eleven in Zui clan are classed as permanent settlements.

The ratio of men to women throughout the district skews higher than average, due to the overwhelming reliance on mining as an economic activity.