Gombari is a populated place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Location
Gombari is in the south of the
Haut-Uélé
Haut-Uélé (French for "Upper Uélé") is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Haut-Uélé, Bas-Uélé, Ituri, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the forme ...
province.
It is on the left (south) bank of the
Bomokandi River
The Bomokandi River is a river in the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The river originates in the southeast of Haut-Uélé province near Gombari, and flows in a ENE direction through Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé
Bas-Uélé ...
where the river is crossed by the RN26 highway.
History
The Belgian colonists created a post at Gombari.
During a period of widespread rebellion in the
Uele District
Uele District (, ) was a district of the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo.
It roughly corresponded to the current provinces of Bas-Uélé and Haut-Uélé.
Landscape
The Uele District, shown as the Uellé District on an 1897 map of the Congo ...
in 1886,
Ernest Baert decided to abandon all the posts upstream from
Djabir and
Ibembo apart from
Dungu, Akka, Mundu and Gombari.
He planned to supply Gombari by a route from the
Ituri River
The Ituri River ( French: ''Rivière Ituri'') is a river of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the main tributary of the Aruwimi River, which forms where the Ituri meets the Nepoko River.
It gives its name to Ituri Province.
Course
The I ...
to serve as a supply base for operations towards Lake Albert and
Bahr-el-Djebel that could be used to reoccupy the
Lado Enclave
The Lado Enclave (; ) was a leased territory administered by the Congo Free State and later by the Belgian Congo that existed from 1894 until 1910. Situated on the west bank of the Upper Nile in what is now South Sudan and northwest Uganda, it wa ...
.
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Populated places in Haut-Uélé