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unusual facts about Ubangi-Shari



Al Baraka Banking Group

The company is listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange and NASDAQ Dubai, the group offers retail, corporate and investment banking and treasury services strictly in accordance with the principles of the Shari'a in 12 countries.

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.

Care Bears: Share Bear Shines

The film was produced by SD Entertainment and Shari Lewis Enterprises, who also made 2007's Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!.

Central African Armed Forces

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

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).

Cypher in the Snow

The original members included Anna Joy, formerly the singer for punk bands Blatz and Gr'ups on vocals; Daniela Sea (as Dan-yella Dyslexia), also from the Gr'ups, played guitar; Rusten (as Shari Lambchop) was the drummer; Ulla Imd on vocals; Margaret Hitchcock was the trumpet player; Chloe Sherman (as Chloe Little Hope) played bass; and Lala Hulse on banjo and lap steel.

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.

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.

Gordon Muortat Mayen

In 1983 President Gaafar Nimeiry declared all Sudan an Islamic state under Shari'a law, including the non-Islamic majority southern region, forcing southerners once again to take to the bush for the second struggle for the liberation of the Sudan, this time under Late Dr. John Garang.

Khaled al-Attiyah

He went on to Cairo University where he obtained a Diploma in Shari'a in 1980 and a Masters Degree in Literature in 1985.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

When Leach was joined by Shari Belafonte in 1994, the show was renamed Lifestyles with Robin Leach and Shari Belafonte.

Lilac Domino

A film version was released in the UK in 1937 and in the U.S. in 1940, starring Michael Bartlett as Count Anatole and June Knight as Shari, the Lilac Domino.

Mawarid Finance

Mawarid acquired Al Jazeera Financial Services, a private equity company specializing in financial intermediation and investment in Shari'a-compliant stocks on both ADX and DFM.

Mohammed Adam El-Sheikh

He graduated from the faculty of Shari’ah and Law, Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan, in 1969.

Ngiri

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

Nuqtavi

‘Alĩ Muḥammad Nāżim ash-Sharī‘ah claims that the Báb was taught the Nuqtavi doctrines while imprisoned in Maku and that he incorporated them directly into his Bayān.

Opinion of Islamic scholars on Jihad

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a renowned scholar based in Qatar writes in his book Fiqh of Jihad,"The third category is the "moderate Ummah" which Almighty Allah has guided to the approach of moderation and granted knowledge, wisdom, and deep understanding of the Shari`ah and reality.

Paul Carlson

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

Peri Bearman

(ed. with Wolfhart Heinrichs and Bernard G. Weiss) The law applied: contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a: a volume in honor of Frank E. Vogel, London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008.

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.

Rex Lewis-Clack

Lewis-Clack came to the attention of CBS’s 60 Minutes when he was 7-years old, and filmed for his first profile, called “Musically Speaking,” with correspondent Lesley Stahl and Producer Shari Finkelstein, which aired September 28, 2003, when he was 8-years old.

Shari Eubank

Shari Eubank (born June 12, 1947) is a retired American actress, best known for her starring role in the Russ Meyer film Supervixens.

Shari O'Donnell

Shari O'Donnell (born 1 May 1984) is an Irish actress known for playing Anna, daughter of F. A. Mitchell-Hedges in The Lost World of the Crystal Skull.

Teachers Only

Redgrave and Fell were already established names when this show aired, but two of the supporting stars in the second season, Jean Smart (she played Shari, the principal's secretary) would go on, three years later, to play her best known role, that of interior design studio receptionist Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the long running show, Designing Women.

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.

Tom Devanney

Devanney and his Perfect Strangers producing colleagues (Shari Hearn, Bob Keyes) went on to produce the Fox sitcom Shaky Ground, which ran during the 1992-93 season and starred Matt Frewer, Robin Riker and Jennifer Love Hewitt.


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