Pepa is a community in the southeast of Tanganyika province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It was the home of the Belgian-owned Societé Elgima Pepa until the 1990s, a huge cattle farm that employed 1,200 local people.

[1] During the Second Congo War (1998-2003) the region became a battle zone between government forces and rebel groups.

[3] By the end of the war buildings that had been used by the military were dilapidated and the community was littered with unexploded and abandoned ordnance.

[7] About 4,000 people trickled back to Pepa after the war, where aid workers educated them in avoiding the dangers of mines and other explosives.