Gounda 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

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to Central African Republic–Chad border, the north, Sudan to Central African Republic–Sudan border, the northeast, South Sudan to Central ...

History

As of 2018 Gounda was under control of FPRC armed group. On 11 March 2022 rebels from FPRC and Russian mercenaries from the

Wagner Group The Wagner Group (), officially known as PMC Wagner (, ), is a Russian state-funded private military company (PMC) controlled 2023 Wagner Group plane crash, until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Pu ...

clashed in Gounda. Four Russians, six rebels and two civilians were killed. Rebels withdrew from the village and Russians continued to Gordile.RCA : violent affrontement entre les éléments du FPRC et les mercenaires russes dans le village Gonda, vers Ndélé
14 March 2022

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External links

Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Bamingui-Bangoran N'Délé {{CentralAfricanRepublic-geo-stub