History
The town was an important centre for the ivory, gold and slave trades during the nineteenth century. Arab-Swahili slave traders were based here from about 1860 and sent caravans overland to Zanzibar. Kindu was also the former capital of Nord-Kivu subregion of Kivu region during the Mobutu era.
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