Diki is a village in the

Bamingui-Bangoran Bamingui-Bangoran is one of the 20 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 58,200 km2 and had a population of 43,229 as of the 2003 census. The capital is Ndélé. In 2024, official estimates suggest the population ...

Prefecture in the northern

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. On 2 August, 2023, a

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occurred in the village when a group of armed men called together a group of the community's residents under pretense of holding a meeting. According to Ousmane Youssef, a local

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, the attackers opened fire on the attendees at point-blank range, killing 13 and wounding 2 more. No group claimed responsibility.

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Populated places in Bamingui-Bangoran N'Délé {{CentralAfricanRepublic-geo-stub