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Beni is a town in north eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, lying immediately west of the Virunga National Park, on the edge of the Ituri Forest. It is home to a market and an airport. The Virunga Mountains are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, along the northern border of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda. ... The Ituri Rainforest is located in the Ituri region of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... A market is a mechanism which allows people to trade, normally governed by the theory of supply and demand, so allocating resources through the price mechanism. ...
The town was the scene of fierce fighting in the Second Congo War around 2001. The Second Congo War was a conflict taking place largely in the territory of Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) that began in 1998 and officially ended in 2002. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It borders the Central African Republic and Sudan on the north, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania on the east, Zambia and Angola on the south, and the Republic of the Congo on the west.
The area now known as the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo was populated as early as 10,000 years ago, and settled in the 7th and 8th centuries by Bantus from present-day Nigeria.
Congo was given to King Leopold II of Belgium in the Conference of Berlin in 1885.
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