Edou is a small town in

Oyo District Owando is a district in the Cuvette Region of the Republic of the Congo. The capital lies at Owando Owando is a town in the central Republic of the Congo, lying on the Kouyou River. It is the capital of Cuvette Department and an autonomous ...

in the

Cuvette Department Cuvette is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the central part of the country. It borders the departments of Cuvette-Ouest, Likouala, Plateaux, and Sangha, and internationally, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon. The capi ...

of the

Republic of Congo The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...

. The current President, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, was born in Edou in 1943 as was politician

François Ibovi François Ibovi is a Congolese politician who held a succession of key posts in the government of Congo-Brazzaville beginning in 1997. Closely associated with President Denis Sassou Nguesso, he was Minister of Communication from 1997 to 2002, Min ...

in 1954.Encyclopædia Britannica
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Populated places in the Republic of the Congo Cuvette Department {{RCongo-geo-stub