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unusual facts about Republic of the Congo


Carlo Lotti

Also outside of Italy water networks were monitored, e.g., Bucharest in Rumania, Durrës in Albania, in Ukraine, in Moldavia, Nkayi Congo.


2010 Cameroon Aéro Service CASA C-212 Aviocar crash

On 19 June 2010, an CASA C-212 Aviocar crashed on a flight from Yaoundé, Cameroon to Yangadou, Republic of the Congo, killing all 11 people on board, including the entire board of Sundance Resources, an Australian mining conglomerate.

Air France Flight 406

Air France Flight 406 was an International Scheduled Passenger flight originating in Brazzaville, Congo with a final destination of Paris, France, with intermediate stops in Fort Lamy, Chad, and Marseille, France.

Aminata Aboubakar Yacoub

Aminata Aboubakar Yacoub (born 22 June 1989 in Epena, Republic of the Congo) is a Republic of the Congo swimmer.

Burnel Okana-Stazi

Burnel Okana-Stazi (born July 10, 1983 in Gamboma) is a Congolese football player who is currently playing for FC Stal Alchevsk.

Camille Oponga

Herman Camille Oponga Ayessa (born January 24, 1978 in Brazzaville) is a Congolese football defender currently playing for ES Viry-Châtillon in the French Championnat de France Amateurs.

Carolivia Herron

Herron has taught literature at many institutions, including Harvard University, Mount Holyoke College, Brandeis University, and Marien N'Guabi University in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.

Évariste Kimba

Evariste Kimba Mutombo (July 16, 1926 – Kinshasa, June 1, 1966) served briefly as the Republic of the Congo's Prime Minister from October 18 to November 14, 1965.

François-Xavier Verschave

After the publication of Noir silence, which also criticized Jacques Chirac's role in the Françafrique, Verschave was targeted by Denis Sassou-Nguesso, head of the Republic of the Congo, Idriss Déby, president of Chad, and Omar Bongo, president of Gabon since 1967 and Africa's longest serving ruler at the time.

Hartlaub's Duck

Hartlaub's Duck is resident in equatorial West and Central Africa, from Guinea and Sierra Leone east through Nigeria to Sudan, and south to Gabon, Congo and Zaire.

Hugues Ngouelondélé

In the July–August 2012 parliamentary election, Ngouelondélé was a candidate in Gamboma—a constituency located in Plateaux Department, rather than Brazzaville—where he faced an opposition leader, Mathias Dzon.

Jean-Jacques N'Domba

Jean-Jacques N'Domba (born June 12, 1960 in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Ken Bugul

From 1986 to 1993, she worked for the NGO IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Foundation) in Nairobi, Kenya; Brazzaville, Congo; and Lomé, Togo.

Ken Talbot

On Saturday, 19 June 2010, Talbot was on a chartered flight between Yaoundé, Cameroon and Congo with fellow Sundance Resources executives Geoff Wedlock, Don Lewis, John Carr-Gregg, John Jones and Craig Oliver, when the plane went missing.

Maxime Matsima

Maxime Matsima is a Congolese football Goalkeeper who played for People's Republic of the Congo in the 1978 African Cup of Nations.

Moyen-Congo Representative Council election, 1946–1947

The first elections to the Representative Council of Moyen-Congo (the French colony of present-day Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville) were held between December 1946 and January 1947.

Paulin J. Hountondji

After two years teaching in Besancon (France), in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi (Republic of the Congo), he accepted a post at the Université Nationale du Bénin in Cotonou, where he still teaches as Professor of Philosophy.

Raymond Jellema

In the summer 2009, Jellema moved to the Republic of the Congo, Africa where he spent two years working on and offshore with French Oil Company, Total.

Republic of the Congo–France relations

In 1924-34, the Congo-Ocean Railway (CFCO) was built at a considerable human and financial cost, opening the way for growth of the ocean port of Pointe-Noire and towns along its route.

During World War II, the AEF administration sided with Free French President Charles de Gaulle, and Brazzaville became the symbolic capital of Free France from 1940-43.

Resistance Patriots of Dongo

Between October and December 2009, they took over several towns in Sud-Ubangi District in northwestern DRC, including Dongo on the Ubangi River, the border with the Republic of the Congo (ROC).

São Tomé and Príncipe at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Kilakone Siphonexay of Laos placed directly ahead of da Costa (11.30 seconds) in a heat led by Bruno Rojas of Bolivia (10.62 seconds) and Devilert Kimbembe of the Republic of the Congo (10.68 seconds).

Singuila

Bedaya Singuila N'Garoest better known as Singuila (born September 19, 1977 in Suresnes, France) is a French singer of Congolese and Central African descent.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.

Walter Bakouma

Walter Silva Bakouma Sitou, known as Walter Bakouma (born November 14, 1980 in Mvouti) is a Congolese professional football player.


see also

ANJ

Zanaga Airport, Republic of the Congo, which has this IATA airport code

AS Dragon

AS Dragons, a football in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Baamba

Baamba, the Amba people of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bagata

Bagata Territory, a territory in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bas-Congo

At the time of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the province was part of the greater province of Leopoldville, along with the city of Kinshasa and the districts of Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe.

Budu

Budu people, an ethnic group of about 250,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bulungu

Bulungu, Bandundu, a community in the Kwilu District of Bandundu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bulungu, Kasai-Occidental, a town in the Lulua District of Kasai-Occidental province of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Bunagana

Bunagana, Uganda, a town in Kisoro District, southwestern Uganda, at the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo

BZO

Bozaba language, a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Elizabethville

Lubumbashi or Elizabethville, Democratic Republic of the Congo

FCPA

Makabana Airport, in the Republic of the Congo, which has that ICAO airport code

Gege

Gege Kizubanata (born 1981), Democratic Republic of the Congo basketball player

H. frontalis

Hyperolius frontalis, a frog species found in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

H. inornatus

Hyperolius inornatus, a frog species endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

H. robustus

Hyperolius robustus, a frog species endemic to Democratic Republic of the Congo

History of Kinshasa

The city was founded as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881 and named Léopoldville in honor of King Léopold II of Belgium, who controlled the vast territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as a colony.

Ituri

Ituri Interim Administration, an interim administration in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Judson Augusto do Bonfim Santos

In October 2012, he represented Equatorial Guinea in a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification game versus Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kabamba

Kabamba Musasa (born 1982), Democratic Republic of the Congo footballer

Kabangu

Mulota Kabangu (born 1985), Democratic Republic of the Congo footballer

Kabila

Joseph Kabila (*1971), president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Kalakundi

Kalukundi Mine, a copper and cobalt mine being developed in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Kazumba

Kazumba Territory, a territory in Kasai-Occidental province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kenge

Kenge, Bandundu, a town in Bandundu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kenge, Bas-Congo, a town in Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kibara

Kibara Mountains, a range in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

KMK

Makabana Airport, in the Republic of the Congo, which has that IATA airport code

Lusanga

Lusanga, Kwilu, a town in Kwilu District of Bandundu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Lusanga, Kwango, a town in Kwango District, Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mbola

Mbole people, an ethnic group living in the Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mushy

Mushie, a town and territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mutanda

Mutanda Mine, an open-pit copper mine in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ndjili

Ndjili, Kinshasa, also known as N'djili or N'Djili, a commune of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nicola Blackwood

Prior to running for office, Blackwood worked with the Conservative Party Human Rights Group which was set up to find ways for the UK to combat human rights abuses in places like Burma and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and as an adviser to the then Shadow International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell.

NKY

Yokangassi Airport, an airport in the Republic of the Congo with that IATA airport code

Numbi

Denis Kalume Numbi, Interior Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Opala

Opala, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a territory in the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Stanleyville

Stanleyville, the former name for the regionally important city of Kisangani on the Congo River, the capital of Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

ULK

Université Libre de Kinshasa, a private university in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1501

The Security Council remained concerned about hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, including North and South Kivu and Ituri Province.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1533

In the preamble of the resolution, the Council expressed concern at the presence of armed groups and militia in North and South Kivu and Ituri in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1596

In the preamble of the resolution, the Security Council expressed concern at the presence of armed groups and militia in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly in North and South Kivu and Ituri Province, while at the same time welcoming that some of the groups had began submitting an inventory of weapons and materiel in their possession.

Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wamba Territory, an administrative area of the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wamba, Haut-Uele District, a town in the Haut-Uele District of the Democratic Republic of the Congo