Kalemie, formerly Albertville or Albertstad, is a city (146,974 inhabitants in 2012) on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town is next to the outflow of the Lukuga River from Lake Tanganyika to the Lualaba River. End 1891 Captain Alphonse Jacques' anti-slavery expedition founded the military post of Albertville on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and tried to put an end to the Arab slave trade in the region.
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Belgian Congo period 1909-1960
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