It is in the center of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a rich area of tropical rainforest, and can be reached only via roads that are often impassable throughout the rainy season.

[1] Colonial mines produced gold in this area from the 1920s until 1958.

As of 2011 Kilo Goldmines, a Canadian company, was active in a joint venture with Somituri sprl, a local company, in exploiting properties in the Mambasa and Wamba territories near the village of Nia Nia.

Tests revealed the skeletons had dated back to the 1500s.

This Ituri Province location article is a stub.