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    Kisoro District is a district in the Western Region of Uganda. The town of Kisoro is the site of the district headquarters. Kisoro Municipality includes...
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    Kisoro is a town in the Western Region of Uganda. It is the chief town of Kisoro District and the site of the district headquarters. Kisoro is approximately...
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    Kigezi District once covered what are now Kabale District, Kanungu District, Kisoro District and Rukungiri District, in southwest Uganda. Its terraced...
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  • Kinyamulenge in South Kivu), Uganda (Rufumbira, spoken by the Bafumbira in Kisoro District), and Tanzania; Ha, with one million speakers, is the most widely spoken...
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    of the following districts: Kabale District Kanungu District Kisoro District Rukungiri District The area covered by the above districts constituted the...
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    east, Kabale District to the south-east, Kisoro District to the south-west, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. The district headquarters...
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  • Member of Parliament. She was a woman Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kisoro District, a position she held from 2016 to 2021. As of 2022[update], she was...
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    Sarah Mateke Nyirabashitsi (category People from Kisoro District)
    Ugandan politician and educationist who is the woman representative for Kisoro District, and Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development appointed...
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  • Bunagana, Uganda (category Kisoro District)
    the Congo. The town is located in extreme southwestern Uganda, in Kisoro District, at the international border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic...
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    Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (category Kisoro District)
    The park is about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) by road south of the town of Kisoro and approximately 55 kilometres (34 mi) by road west of Kabale, the largest...
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    Bukimbiri Kisoro District Paul Buchana Kwizera NRM Kisoro Municipality Kisoro District Sarah Mateke Nyirabashitsi NRM Women's Representative Kisoro District Nulu...
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    civilians have fled the DRC to Kisoro District, Uganda. Also on that day, a rocket fired from the DRC to the Kisoro District, killing seven people. In early...
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    an endangered group of people around Echuya Forest Reserve in Kisoro and Kabale Districts of South-Western Uganda. The Echuya is located in the Albertine...
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    Rwanda and Burundi. Mushanana is also worn by the Bafumbira women from Kisoro District in the Kigezi sub-region in the south-western part of Uganda. Rwandese...
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    Mount Sabyinyo (category Kisoro District)
    Mount Sabyinyo ("Sabyinyo" is derived from the Kinyarwanda word "Iryinyo", meaning "tooth"; also "Sabyinyo, Sabyinio") is an extinct volcano in eastern...
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    Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (category Kisoro District)
    sectors of Buhoma, Ruhijja, Rushaga and the Nkuringo in the districts of Kanungu, Kabale and Kisoro respectively, all under the management of Uganda Wildlife...
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  • Kwizera Eudia (category People from Kisoro District)
    party, she served in the eighth Parliament of Uganda representing Kisoro District. She had a Certificate and Bachelors' Degree in Counselling. She died...
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    Lake Mulehe (category Kisoro District)
    Lake Mulehe is a crater lake situated in the Kisoro District of southwestern Uganda, close to the border with Rwanda. This lake is a part of the Albertine...
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  • Kale Kayihura (category People from Kisoro District)
    Kisoro District. He later transferred to Buhinga Primary School in Kabarole District. He studied at Mutolere Secondary School, at Mutolere, in Kisoro...
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    intense rain around Mount Muhavura damaged buildings and roads in Kisoro District, especially affecting Nyarusiza, Muramba and Bunagana. Nine people...
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    Sam Byibesho (category People from Kisoro District)
    administrator, and politician. He serves as the Member of Parliament for Kisoro Municipality, representing the National Resistance Movement Resistance Movement...
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  • Kisoro Airport (ICAO: HUKI) is an airport serving the town of Kisoro in Uganda and nearby Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National...
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    Bafumbira (category Kisoro District)
    (ethnonym: Bafumbira; singular Mufumbira), are a Bantu ethnic group from Kisoro District in South Western Uganda. They are of three indigenous groups: Bahutu...
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  • The Kabale–Kisoro–Bunagana Road in Western Uganda connects the town of Kabale with the towns of Kisoro, Bunagana, at the border with the Democratic Republic...
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    Mombasa on the Indian Ocean coast. They had travelled in rural Uganda to Kisoro District on the south-western border with Rwanda and the Congo. Naipaul showed...
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    James Nsaba Buturo (category People from Kisoro District)
    elected Member of Parliament representing "Bufumbira County East", Kisoro District, from 2001 until 2011. In the 2011 national elections, Nsaba Buturo...
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    Lake Mutanda (category Kisoro District)
    is located in Kisoro District in southwestern Uganda, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Kisoro, where the district headquarters...
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    are Sunni. Small Shia and Ahmadi minorities are also present. The Iganga District in the east of Uganda had the highest percentage of Muslims according to...
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    covers approximately 34 km2 and is located at the intersection of Kisoro and Rubanda districts. It is one of the few remaining tropical rain forests in Uganda...
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    Mount Gahinga (category Kisoro District)
    Mount Gahinga is a dormant/extinct volcano in the Virunga Mountains on the Rwanda-Uganda border. Gahinga lies between Muhabura and Sabyinyo, but is the...
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