page_title: Likasi
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Likasi / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the church buildings, Jadotville (now Likasi), Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo/Congo-Kinshasa). Photograph of original b/w postcard, unattributed photographer c1930.
context_page_description: Likasi is a city in Haut-Katanga Province, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
context_section_description: Likasi has a population of around 447,500 (2012). During the 1990s the United Nations set up feeding centres and refugee centres in and around Likasi to assist with the refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Shaba, whose arrival had increased the population of the town some 41,000.
caption: View of Jadotville (Likasi), circa 1930.
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