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unusual facts about Ubangi River



Bomongo

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

Dongo conflict

The Dongo conflict is an armed conflict centered in Dongo, on the left bank of the Ubangi River in the Kungu territory of Sud-Ubangi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Lingala

In the 19th century, before the creation of the Congo Free State, the Bangala, (literally: 'river people'), were a group of similar Bantu peoples living and trading along the bend of the Congo River that reached from Irebu at the mouth of the Ubangi River to the Mongala River.

Rabih az-Zubayr

He started confronting the British in 1896 and the following year even started marching on Kano, while his vassal Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi founded a fortified capital, Ndele, between Bahr Aouk and the Ubangi River, which he held until 1911.

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).

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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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.

Ngiri

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