• The Mbochi (or M'Boshi) are a Bantu ethnic group in Central Africa. Their language originates from the regions of the African Great Lakes where they began...
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  • Mbosi (Mboshi) is a Bantu language spoken by the Mbochi people in the Republic of Congo. Mbosi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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    novelization. In the SCP Foundation, mokele-mbembe is what a village of Mbochi people call a specimen of SCP-1265, specifically a Camarasaurus. They also...
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    The People's Republic of the Congo had 2,153,685 inhabitants in 1988. There were 15 ethnic groups, although most people were Kongo, Sangha, Mbochi, or...
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    The Bantu peoples are an indigenous ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The...
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    the Lari and the Kongo peoples of the south part of the Republic of Congo, of the citizens of the Niari Valley, or of the Mbochis of the Cuvette Department...
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    Fertility data as of 2011-2012 (DHS Program): Kongo 40.5%, Teke 16.9%, Mbochi 13.1%, Sangha 5.6%, Europeans and other 23.9% French (official), Kituba...
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    Denis Sassou Nguesso (category Living people)
    presidential election with a majority in the first round. A member of the Mbochi tribe, Sassou Nguesso was born in Edou in the Oyo district in northern Congo...
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    drew members from their leaders' ethnic and political backgrounds: the Mbochi supported Sassou, and the Nibolek and the Lari sided with Lissouba and Kolelas...
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  • African people Indigenous people of Africa Ethnic groups in Chad List of ethnic groups in Rivers State List of ethnic groups in Tanzania European people Classification...
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  • Armée Nationale Populaire. Under the People's Republic of the Congo, the FAC was again reorganized, with Mbochi career soldiers making up the bulk of...
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    Edith Lucie Bongo (category Gabonese people of Republic of the Congo descent)
    taken to Edu, her father's home village in northern Congo for a traditional Mbochi tribal burial in the family cemetery there on March 20, 2009. The burial...
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    Marien Ngouabi (category People murdered in the Republic of the Congo)
    Travail, PCT) as the country's only legal political party. Ngouabi was a Mbochi from the north and his regime shifted control of the country away from the...
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    Théophile Obenga (category Living people)
    Présence Africaine. 1984. ISBN 2708704397. Littérature traditionnelle des Mbochi. Etsee le Yamba. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1984. ISBN 2708704370. Les Bantu...
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    Modeste Boukadia (category Living people)
    signatories, led by Boukadia, accused President Denis Sassou Nguesso and his Mbochi clan of ethnical cleansing and planned destruction in the southern parts...
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    Fulbert Youlou (category People of French Equatorial Africa)
    MSA-PPC supporters in Poto-Poto (the quarter of Brazzaville controlled by the Mbochi, who supported Opangault) attacked and started killing those they considered...
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    1958 and published its first constitution in 1959. Antagonism between the Mbochis (who favored Jacques Opangault) and the Laris and Kongos (who favored Fulbert...
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    Rodolphe Adada (category Living people)
    to 2016. He has been Ambassador to France since 2016. Adada, an ethnic Mbochi, was born in Gamboma, French Congo on 24 April 1946. He obtained a doctorate...
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  • Bakongo from early politics led to a power vacuum into which the Vili and Mbochi moved until independence. The most prominent Congolese politician until...
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    Charles Richard Mondjo (category Living people)
    Chief of Staff of the Congolese Armed Forces from 2002 to 2012. An ethnic Mbochi and the son of diplomat Nicolas Mondjo, Charles Richard Mondjo was born...
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    Pierre Oba (category Living people)
    He is also a Général de Brigade of the National Police. Oba, an ethnic Mbochi, was born at Ollembé, located in the Ollombo District of Plateaux Region...
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  • Jean-Jacques Bouya (category Living people)
    beginning in 2003. Born at Mouembé in Cuvette Region, Bouya is an ethnic Mbochi related to Denis Sassou Nguesso, who became President of Congo-Brazzaville...
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  • Gabriel Oba-Apounou (category Living people)
    been a member of the Senate since 2008. A native of Oyo, he belongs to the Mbochi tribe. He is also a cousin of Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso....
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    Nigeria-Benin and the Congo rod puppets, called Kebe kebe and used by the Mbochi and Kuyu people, are mainly linked to the cult of their ancestors. In the "Winter...
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  • Jean-Dominique Okemba (category Living people)
    for high-level influence with other clans belonging to Sassou Nguesso's Mbochi ethnic group. As Special Adviser to the President, Okemba was sometimes...
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    Jean-Claude Gakosso (category Living people)
    Minister of Culture and the Arts from 2002 to 2015. Gakosso, an ethnic Mbochi, was born in Inkouélé, located in the Gamboma District of Plateaux Region...
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  • Jean-Marie Tassoua (category Living people)
    Democratic Forces (FDN), a political party, from 2007 to 2010. An ethnic Mbochi, Tassoua was born at Enyellé, located in the Likouala Region of northern...
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  • Bruno Itoua (category Living people)
    2011, and Minister of Scientific Research from 2011 to 2016. An ethnic Mbochi and a member of the Gamboma clan, Itoua was born in Pointe-Noire but was...
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  • François Ibovi (category Living people)
    from 2007 to 2012, and Minister of Health from 2012 to 2016. An ethnic Mbochi, Ibovi was born in Edou, located in the Oyo District of Cuvette Region,...
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    Firmin Ayessa (category Living people)
    Director of the Presidential Cabinet from 2007 to 2017. Ayessa, an ethnic Mbochi, was born in Ondza, located near Makoua in the north of Congo-Brazzaville...
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