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Bangui

American  
[bahn-gee] / bɑ̃ˈgi /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of the Central African Republic, in the SW part.


Bangui British  
/ bɑ̃ɡi /

noun

  1. the capital of the Central African Republic, in the south part, on the Ubangi River. Pop: 732 000 (2005 est)

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Media reports at the time indicates that at least 1,000 people were killed in tit-for-tat clashes in Bangui in December 2013, and half the city's population fled in that month alone.

From BBC

The blast, on the second day of the high-school finals on Wednesday, occurred at an electricity transformer, said Abel Assaye from the Bangui community hospital.

From BBC

Even before the inauguration of the Prigozhin statue, Russia's role in the country was already immortalised by a statue in Bangui, of Russian troops shielding a woman and her children.

From BBC

On Monday, Dr Somse told reporters the risk of transmission between individuals is now very high because Bangui is relatively densely populated.

From BBC

The wooden ferry was carrying more than 300 people to a funeral over the Mpoko River in the capital, Bangui, on Friday when it started to collapse, witnesses told The Associated Press on Saturday.

From Seattle Times