Lubero

Lubero is a town in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the administrative center of Lubero Territory. It lies at an average altitude of about 1,900 metres in the Virunga Mountains, at the western edge of Virunga National Park and close to the border with Uganda, roughly 210 kilometres by road north of the provincial capital Goma and about 98 kilometres southwest of Beni. It is a medium-sized town with an airport, Lubero Airport, which has a grass runway, and a mini hydropower station is planned in the hills nearby. After Mai-Mai fighters surrendered in 2021, a new market was begun in 2022 with ex-combatants, young people at risk and vulnerable women taking part. Like much of North Kivu, the area has seen repeated militia violence. The artist Lucie Kamuswekera, born in 1944, is a notable resident.