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Ubangi-Shari had a similar concession system as the Congo Free State and similar atrocities were also committed there. French author and Nobel laureate André Gide travelled to Ubangi-Shari and was told by inhabitants about atrocities including mutilations, dismemberments, executions, the burning of children, and villagers being forcibly bound to large beams and made to walk until dropping ...
The Central African Republic (CAR), [a] formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, [b] is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west.
The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west.
By 1903 the areas that now make up Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville (then called Moyen-Congo, or Middle Congo) were united as French Congo (later split), with areas further north organised into Ubangi-Shari (modern Central African Republic) and Chad military territory; the latter two areas were merged from 1906 to 1914 as Ubangi-Shari-Chad. [3]
A map of Ubangi-Shari c. 1910 showing the location of Ft. de Possel in the southwestern corner of the colony.. Fort de Possel (French: Fort-de-Possel) was a French garrison and settlement in central Africa which served as the capital of Ubangi-Shari from February 11 to December 11 in 1906. [1]
Before this, it was called Ubangi-Shari. [1] [2] Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous state within the French Community and was renamed the Central African Republic on 1 December 1958. The Republic became fully independent on 13 August 1960.
Oubangui-Chari-Tchad (constituent colony of Congo Français, renamed French Equatorial Africa in 1910) April 4, 1906, to February 28, 1909: Émile Merwart, Lieutenant-Governor February 28, 1909, to August 5, 1910: Lucien Fourneau, acting Lieutenant-Governor August 5, 1910, to June 10, 1911: Paul Adam, acting Lieutenant-Governor
The party, which was initially intended to work as a political movement, was founded by Barthélemy Boganda in Bangui, Ubangi-Shari (later known as the Central African Republic) on 28 September 1949, to connect "all the Blacks of the world" [1] and "to promote the political, economic and social evolution of black Africa, to break down the barriers of tribalism and racism, to replace the ...