Boundji | |
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  Boundji Location in the Republic of the Congo | |
| Coordinates: 1°1′35″S15°20′52″E / 1.02639°S 15.34778°E | |
| Country |  Republic of the Congo |
| Department | Cuvette |
| District | Boundji |
| Elevation | 1,175 ft (358 m) |
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Boundji is a town in the Cuvette Department of central Republic of the Congo. It is the administrative seat of the Boundji District.
The city is served by Boundji Airport.
The Mbochi are a Bantu ethnic group in Central Africa. Their language originates from the regions of the African Great Lakes where they began, after a long migration from the east to the centre, over the years, until 1850. This central African ethnic group as a population is concentrated in the northern region of the Republic of the Congo. The current Congolese president, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, as well as many senior government officials, belong to this group. Mbochi is the traditional language spoken in the northern regions of la Cuvette also in the region of the Plateaux.
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 capital is Owando. Cities and towns include Boundji, Makoua and Okoyo.
Boundji is a district of the Cuvette Department in the Republic of the Congo. The administrative seat of the district is Boundji.
Justin Lekoundzou Itihi Ossetoumba was a Congolese politician. He was a founding member of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), and during the PCT's single-party rule he held important party and government positions in the 1970s and 1980s. He served in the government again from 1997 to 2002 and was elected to the National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville in 2002.
Martial Mathieu Kani is a Congolese politician and academic. A leading member of the Rally for Democracy and Development (RDD), he served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of the Tourist Industry and Leisure from September 2009 to September 2012.
Rigobert Roger Andely, is a Congolese central banker and academic specializing in monetary and banking economics. He was Vice-Governor of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) from 1998 to 2002, Minister of Finance in the government of Congo-Brazzaville from 2002 to 2005, and Vice-Governor of the BEAC again from 2005 to 2010.