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Mbandaka

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[bahn-dah-kah, uhm-bahn-] / ˈbɑn dɑˌkɑ, əmˈbɑn- /

noun

  1. a city in the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


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Shortly before midnight, just 25 kilometres from Mbandaka, the vessel carrying the two young men capsized.

From Barron's Oct. 13, 2025

He relates that Mbandaka has no permanent power supply, only a few diesel generators and hardly any infrastructure -- not even a power drill to install the flood level marker.

From Science Daily Oct. 18, 2023

A survivor told Radio Okapi that the boat, which had left the city of Mbandaka for the Bolomba area in the north-western Equateur province, stalled and lost balance due to overcrowding.

From BBC Oct. 16, 2023

Tshisekedi, 59, also registered on Saturday in the northwest city of Mbandaka, where an Ebola outbreak occurred earlier this year.

From Reuters Dec. 26, 2022

The next morning we saw the first signs of Mbandaka.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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