The total area is 150.19 km².

It is in the north of the country, and bordered the Republic of the Congo to the west, the Central African Republic to the north, to the east the Orientale province, and to the south the Kasai Oriental, Kasai Occidental, and Bandundu provinces.

Kasaï Oriental is one of the richest diamond producing regions in the world.

Tshiluba is spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Kasai region.

b Includes Kasai Oriental, Kasai Occidental, Orientale, North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema and Katanga provinces.

Several thousand people were killed during the pacification of South Kasai, which lasted through the spring of 1962.

Seventy two per cent of the estimated electorate in Kasai Oriental had registered to vote.

The mission met in Mbuji Mayi with the Governor of Kasai Oriental Province, the local representative of IEC and members of the Provincial Security Committee.

Most NGOs and associations act collectively through such bodies as the Coordination of Women's NGOs and Associations of the Niger, Kassaï and the Private Assistance Group (GAP).

The results are often tragic, as when at least 18 youngsters and street children (shegués) were slaughtered by the populace in Mbuji Mayi, Kasai Oriental, without the police intervening.

However, Wibasira was suspected of complicity with the soldiers in Goma who triggered a mutiny in Bukavu in February 2004, and on 23 January 2005 he was switched with Gabriel Amisi Kumba, at the time commander of the Fifth Military Region in Kasaï Oriental.

Ituri is not the only region experiencing such losses. Other affected areas include the gold bearing district extending from Mahagi to Pueto in Katanga Musefu, Luiza and Muene Ditu in Kasai Sandoa in Katanga and the gold bearing districts of Bas Fleuve and Les Cataractes in Bas Congo.