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unusual facts about Cuvette-Ouest Department


Cuvette-Ouest Department

Cuvette-Ouest has been the site of several outbreaks of the Ebola virus.


Équateur District

The Équateur District was formerly a province known as Cuvette-Centrale, having separated from the former Équateur region in 1962.

Étienne Polverel

Polverel was given charge of the West, and when Ailhaud abandoned his post, he took responsibility for the South as well.

Republic of the Congo presidential election, 1992

Sassou-Nguesso dominated the north, winning first round majorities in Plateaux (57.6%) and Likouala (58.5%) and pluralities in Cuvette (47.9%) and Sangha (41.9%).

Vassar Haiti Project

These art sales provide the primary means of funding for initiatives in education, health care, water access and purification, and reforestation in Chermaitre, Haiti, a mountain village in the Nord-Ouest Department of Haiti.


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