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Article 3 of the decree of 16 April 1887 provided for the Congo Free State to be divided into administrative districts headed by district commissioners, assisted by one or more deputies. The decree of 1 August 1888 divided the Congo Free State into eleven districts, including
Aruwimi-Uele District
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created in 1914. It disappeared with the reorganization of 1933, absorbed into the
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