Kiliba
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Kiliba is a village on the Congolese side of a border crossing between Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is about 17km from the Burundi capital Bujumbura and 25km from Uvira in South Kivu Province of the DRC
The Kiliba border crossing is over the Ruzizi River, the nearest crossing to Lake Tanganyika. The Mitumba Mountains lie to the west.
Kiliba has been very known in the DRC for the sugar cane mill of Sucraf-Sucki. It was the second biggest and the oldest sugar mill in the whole DRC. Unfortunately today, the factory has been destroyed in the civil war which started in 1996 - the Second Congo War.
In recent times Fondation chirezi has begun programs for the local community.
