[4] In 2003-2006, the Angolan government enacted Operation Brilliant, an action to combat illegal diamond mining and smuggling by rebel groups and undocumented Congolese miners, in which hundreds of thousands of people were deported to the DRC.

These people were driven to Luremo in cramped military trucks, searched, often in invasive and degrading ways, and then forced to walk, without access to food, water, or sanitation, the last 65 kilometers to the Congolese border.

[7] In April 2024, the Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Musuku was one of six sites proposed by the Provincial Government of Lunda-Norte to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and the Environment to be declared a National Heritage.

[9] These mines have received allegations of human rights abuses perpetrated both by police and by private security companies such as K&P Mineira, with reports of detainment without cause, confiscation of property for ransom, harsh and unhygienic working conditions, beatings, torture, murder, and rape.

In 2023, interim administrator José Muheto told Jornal de Angola his belief that Luremo could provide food for nearby communities such as Cuango, Xá-Muteba and Capenda-Camulemba if this agricultural sector could be better supported.

In January 2022, the failure of an improvised bridge making up part of EN-225 left Luremo and Cafunfo cut off together from the rest of Angola amidst calls for the government to provide more and better road infrastructure.