After various significant boundary changes, in 2015 the district became the western part of the present Lualaba Province.

Parts of the Stanley Falls and Lualaba districts were combined to form Katanga in 1910, which was called a vice-government general.

[4] The vice-government of Katanga now contained the districts of Lomami and Lulua in the west, and Tanganika-Moero and Haut-Luapula in the east.

[7] It took its name from the Lualaba River, which rises in the south and flows north into Tanganika District.

In November 1961 the northern portion was reconquered by the national government and made the province of Nord-Katanga.