Mutambala

Local food crops include cassava, palm oil, rice, maize, beans, banana, tomato, yam, peanut, sweet potato and sugarcane.

[10] The region experienced another influx of immigrants from Burundi in 1972 during the Great Calamity, a series of mass killings against the Hutu populace by the Tutsi-dominated army and government after the advent of Michel Micombero.

The insurgency conducted mass killings of Hutu refugees as well as Zairian civilians in Atanga, Baraka, Alùndja, Banyalinga, Alùlo, and Alèlè villages in the Mutambala sector.

[12][15][16][17][18] In recent years, there has been an abundance of armed groups: FRF (Forces Republicaines Federalistes), RCD-Goma (Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma), Ngumino, Twigwaneho and Red-Tabara.

[19] In April 2010, two civilians were reportedly robbed and seriously wounded by gunfire by armed groups in Mukera Kasonge, a town 30 kilometers north of Fizi-center, according to the sector chief of Mutambala.

[20] On March 23, 2015, Mai-Mai Yakutumba attacked a FARDC (Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo) military position in Lubishako near the Nganda forest in the Fizi territory in South Kivu.

[21] On August 12, 2020, 600 cows were allegedly stolen following the clashes between Twigwaneho and Maï-Maï Ebuela in the Mulima region, 90 km west of Baraka, in the middle plateaus of the Mutambala sector, South Kivu.