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4 unusual facts about Ubangi


Central African Armed Forces

It is called the Second Battalion of the Ground Forces and it patrols the Ubangi river.

Foreign relations of the Central African Republic

MLC controlled the northern part of DRC and its rebels were stationed on the other side of the Ubangi river from Bangui.

Paul Carlson

He arrived in Congo and began working as a medical missionary for six months in the Ubangi province.

Rabih az-Zubayr

Using the tactics of the Khartumi, he in the 1880s he carved out a kingdom between the basins of the Nile and the Ubangi, in the country of Kreich and Dar Benda, south of Ouaddai, a region he utterly devastated.


Ange-Félix Patassé

Patassé's mother, Véronique Goumba, belonged to the Kare ethnic group of northwestern Ubangi-Shari.

Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Bomongo

Bomongo is the only town in the Ngiri Reserve, a sparsely populated region of swamp forest between the Ubangi and Congo rivers.

Confédération africaine des travailleurs croyants de l'A.E.F

CATC was founded in Pointe-Noire January 2–6, 1957 by the branches of the French trade union centre C.F.T.C in Gabon, Moyen-Congo, Chad and Ubangi-Shari.

Cupidesthes thyrsis

It is found in Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ubangi, Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba).

David Dacko

In March 1957 Dacko presented himself as a candidate for legislative elections in Ubangi-Shari for the circumscription of Ombella-M'Poko and won a seat as a member of the "Territorial Assembly of Ubangi-Shari".

Dongo conflict

President Kabila reportedly asked Central African Republic (C.A.R.) president François Bozizé to intervene and flank the resistance forces through the remote frontier town of Zongo, DRC, also in Sud-Ubangi Province, across the border from Bangui, the C.A.R. capital.

Dume district

The area was inhabited primarily by Bantu societies, especially Omvang, Makaa and Kaka as well as the Ubangi-speaking Gbaya.

Ngiri

Ngiri River, a tributary of the Ubangi River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Théophile Delcassé

He gave a great impetus to French colonial enterprise, especially in West Africa, where he organized the newly acquired colony of Dahomey, and despatched the Liotard mission to the upper Ubangi.


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