L'embarcadère

This is the dock where the aid agencies keep their boats, used for taking staff to the refugee sites scattered along the Oubangui River.

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Working in the refugee sites on the Oubangui River

August 1st 2010
So Bétou is basically a village, though it’s referred to here as a “small city” because it’s the capital of a province. Aside from local mud or wood dwellings, it has a big Italian-owned timber company whose processing facility is a few steps from the UNHCR compound, a small market that for some reason has a large proportion of vendors from Mauritania (which is nowhere near the Congo), o ... read more

Africa » Congo » North

Upon independence in 1960, the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of the Congo. A quarter century of experimentation with Marxism was abandoned in 1990 and a democratically elected government installed in 1992. A brief civil war... ... read more

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