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	Mbandaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mbandaka, formerly known as Coquilhatville is a city on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying near the confluence of the Congo and Ruki Rivers.
		Mbandaka is largely populated by people of the Mongo ethnic group, although people from many different regions live in the city.
		The main languages spoken in Mbandaka are Lingala, French and Mongo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mbandaka (363 words)

	CDC - Alfalfa Seed Decontamination in a Salmonella Outbreak
		Mbandaka infection and onset of acute illness from January 1 to April 15, 1999.
		Mbandaka were identified in four states: Oregon (42 cases), Washington (19 cases), Idaho (7 cases), and California (21 cases) (Figure 1); 74% of the case-patients were women, and the median age was 28 years of age (range, 6 months to 98 years; interquartile range: 19–41 years).
		Mbandaka isolates from stool samples from the initial 10 case-patients, the partially consumed box of sprout X retrieved from case-patient 1, and the onsite sprout and seed sample cultures were indistinguishable but clearly differed from the two S.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol9no4/02-0519.htm (3834 words)

	Bamanya: Books in the Jungle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mbandaka is the centre of the world, if you stand in front of a world map and draw a diagonal cross.
		Nowadays Mbandaka is one of the biggest towns in Congo, with an estimated population of 100.000-150.000 inhabitants.
		Mbandaka is the capital of the province of Equateur.
	www.abbol.com /english/bamanya.php (1608 words)

	MSF Around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		MSF staff in the city of Mbandaka, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have been providing emergency care to local inhabitants after armed military personnel looted the area and attacked locals, shooting many, killing at least six and raping men, women and children.
		Mbandaka is the capital of Equateur in the Western province of the DRC.
		Mbandaka is once again quiet, but victims must live with the long-lasting memories of their traumas and the fear that it may happen again.
	217.29.194.251 /msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=157110C8-E018-0C72-09127A1AF5A6DF1A&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html (505 words)

	Villes -- Mbandaka, Comgo [WULT.ORG] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		En effet, la cessation des activitÃ©s de cette succursale de Mbandaka a eu pour effet la suppression des emplois, les difficultÃ©s dâapprovisionnement des...
		Ces navires se trouvent Ã Mbandaka, chef- lieu de la province, a affirmÃ© le ministre Olenghakoy.Ce dernier a en outre prÃ©cisÃ© que son collÃ¨gue de la...
		L’ancien élève des frères des écoles chrétiennes de Mbandaka, actuellement Institut Frère Iloo, qui résidait au quartier des pêcheurs appelé Basoko...
	wult.org /fr/geo/Mbandaka.html (550 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mbandaka, in the other hand, shows its larger amount of precipitation in October (220 in.), while another peak seems also to rise in March (160 in.).
		In Belem the temperature curve raised slightly in November abd December and in Mbandaka, the temperature dipped slight in June, July, and August.
		Mbandaka on the other hand never receives much more than 200mm in one month and has a minimum of around 75mm during the dry season.
	www.iitap.iastate.edu /tmp/1996/geoassign.txt (5412 words)

	Emerging Infectious Diseases: Alfalfa seed decontamination in a Salmonella outbreak - Research
		In 1999, an outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Mbandaka occurred in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California.
		S. Mbandaka, an uncommon serotype in Oregon, occurred from 1988 to 1998 at an average rate of 1.5 cases per year.
		Mbandaka was cultured from 69 stool samples, 14 urine samples, three blood cultures, one abscess, one blood and stool sample, and one unspecified source.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GVK/is_4_9/ai_100132043 (1312 words)

	Andrew Maykuth Online \| maykuth.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mwenze Kongolo, the new interior minister who traveled to Mbandaka on May 20 to investigate initial news reports of the massacres, said the accounts of refugee murders were ``pure lies." He said that alliance soldiers killed only a few armed combatants in Mbandaka.
		The story was similar in Mbandaka, a once-handsome colonial city of perhaps 100,000 people that is being slowly reclaimed by the encroaching jungle.
		In Mbandaka, the short-lived joy at having been rid of the dictator has turned to dread that Mobutu has been replaced by something far worse.
	www.maykuth.com /Africa/drc605.htm (1931 words)

	Mbandaka - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nov 26 (UNHCR) â“ Some 1,500 Congolese refugees have braved the tough journey home from the Central African...
		On 24 and 25 November, 97 Congolese refugees arrived by private plane rented by UNHCR from Bangui in Mbandaka and were greeted by the Vice Governor, MONUC HoO...
		Umetesi said she eventually trekked 2,000 kilometers from Tingi-Tingi to the city of Mbandaka in the Congo, before escaping to Belgium.
	news.daylightonline.com /2003/Mbandaka.html (231 words)

	The Starship Diaries - Raytheon Beechcraft Starship - a book by Dallas Kachan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mbandaka is the region’s capital, a formerly sleepy town that had apparently undergone a sort of transformation just before my arrival.
		Mbandaka is first and foremost a port city, and all along the port, in a seamless merging of land and water, dock and boat, was a fascinating cross-section of humankind.
		The Mbandaka layover was supposed to be just a quick in-and-out, but at the airport the second day, the nervous young soldier in charge of fuel was even more agitated.
	www.starshipdiaries.com /ebola.html (3890 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In Mbandaka the precipitation is the highest in September October and November where it is about 200 in a month.
		Mbandaka experiences its maximum precipitation during the months of Sep - Nov. In each of these months, the amount of precipitation is roughly 200 mm, or about 8 inches.
		In Mbandaka, the wet season is from September to November and rainfall is approximately 200 mm/month.
	www.iitap.iastate.edu /maxwell/dialog/data/geoassign.txt (6727 words)

	DisciplesWorld : Special Report
		MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo (7/6/05) — It was peaceful for three years in this west Congo town, home of the headquarters of the Community of Disciples of Christ in Congo (CDCC).
		That is, until Sunday when hundreds of untrained soldiers at the Bokala camp south of Mbandaka began a violent rampage in the small village of Iyonda then moved north through Bolenge into Mbandaka.
		Two Mbandaka guest houses owned by the Disciples church were ransacked, stripped of everything including furnishings, kitchen ware, and supplies.
	www.disciplesworld.com /newsArticle.html?wsnID=7325 (1005 words)

	Mbandaka - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		At Mbandaka Prison in Equateur province, "the ribs of most of the inmates were clearly visible," the report said.
		UN insiders said two Russian pilots based in Mbandaka paid young girls with jars of mayonnaise and jam to have sex with them.
		Mbandaka news from Sept 2004 to Dec 2004
	news.daylightonline.com /2005/Mbandaka.html (257 words)

	Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Pictures
		Mbandaka, formerly Coquilhatville, city in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire), capital of Équateur Region, on the Congo River, at the mouth of the Ruki River.
		Fishing, boatbuilding, and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals are the chief industries of the city, and trade in copal (resin) is carried on.
		Mbandaka is the site of medical and business schools, and nearby to the east, at Eala, are extensive botanical gardens and laboratories.
	www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Democratic+Republic+of+the+Congo/Mbandaka (283 words)

	Ferryboat fire victims hospitalised (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		KINSHASA, 3 Feb 2004 (IRIN) - Some 301 survivors of a ferryboat fire on the River Congo were hospitalised on Monday in Mbandaka, Equateur Province, in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, humanitarian aid officials said.
		She said those being treated in the hospital were suffering from burns and fever.
		Survivors said there was an explosion aboard the ferry while it was some distance from the village of Lukolela, some 185 south of Mbandaka.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=39268 (546 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » RDC: Reprise des activités économiques à Mbandaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		La province de l'Equateur en général, et Mbandaka son chef-lieu en particulier, n'ont pas échappé au mouvement de déliquescence de la société congolaise.
		L'aéroport de Mbandaka qui, jusque-là, n'enregistrait que très peu de trafic, bouillonne d'activités les mardis, jeudis, vendredis et samedis, jours d'arrivée et de départ de compagnies aériennes nationales.
		Mbandaka n'est reliée à aucune ville de l'intérieur de la province par voie terrestre.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/JMAN-66DAVE?OpenDocument (835 words)

	CNN - U.N. team aborts probe of massacres in former Zaire - Dec. 16, 1997
		The team began its investigation in the northwestern town of Mbandaka last Thursday after months of delays due to a dispute with President Laurent Kabila over the scope of the investigation.
		The teams were investigating alleged massacres believed to have started in Rwandan refugee camps along the eastern borders of the country that continued onto Mbandaka as Kabila pushed west toward Kinshasa.
		Human rights officials say the killings in Mbandaka reportedly occurred in the center of the town in full view of residents.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9712/16/congo.un (669 words)

	monuc.org: MONUC evacuates survivors of a shipwreck in Mbandaka ::: 04/02/2004
		monuc.org: MONUC evacuates survivors of a shipwreck in Mbandaka ::: 04/02/2004
		MONUC evacuates survivors of a shipwreck in Mbandaka
		MONUC evacuated approximately 280 passengers on 2 February to Mbandaka after surviving a fire which broke out in a whaleboat on 29 January, in Lukolela, a village situated 150 km South of Mbandaka.
	www.monuc.org /news.aspx?newsID=1855 (458 words)

	ARS \| Publication request: Gamma-Radiation Decontamination of Alfalfa Seeds Naturally Contaminated with Salmonella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The radiation resistance of Salmonella Mbandaka on alfalfa seed was determined to be similar to that of other salmonellae associated with outbreaks of salmonellosis due to the consumption of alfalfa sprouts.
		We found that the dose required to eliminate the pathogen was dependent upon the maximum concentration of the pathogen per seed not the average contamination level of the lot of seed.
		An absorbed dose of 4 kGy, but not 3 kGy, eliminated viable Salmonella Mbandaka from samples of this lot of seed and indicated that the contamination was sporadic.
	ars.usda.gov /research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=140964 (295 words)

	New Refugee Crisis Builds in Zaire
		They have nothing with which to dig latrines and there are fears of a cholera outbreak, she said.
		Cholera is endemic around Mbandaka, and in the last few days several people have died from it, relief workers said on Tuesday.
		Officials in Mbandaka have said that the area is not safe for expatriate relief workers.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/051497zaire-refugees.html (739 words)

	U.N. troops arrive in strategic city in Congo's government-held (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		MBANDAKA, Congo (AP) A final contingent of 140 soldiers from Senegal landed Sunday in the northwest city of Mbandaka, completing the second U.N. deployment on the government-held side of war-divided Congo.
		Zimbabwe forces hold Mbandaka, strategically vital as the last major stop before the capital, Kinshasa.
		Zimbabwe announced April 3 that it was sending 1,500 troops in Mbandaka home to the Zimbabwe capital, Harare.
	www.un.int /drcongo/disc14/00000022.htm (458 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » DRC: Rampaging soldiers kill nine civilians in northwestern town of Mbandaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The killings took place after the soldiers broke into the armoury of their camp at Bokala, four kilometres from the centre of Mbandaka, to avenge the death of a comrade, who had been murdered by unidentified assailants, Yves Mobando Yogo, the Governor of Equateur province said.
		Speaking after visiting the main hospital in Mbandaka, the Governor said just one person had died in the shooting, an elderly woman who had been hit by a stray bullet.
		Mobando said calm had returned to Mbandaka, 600 km upstream on the Congo river from the capital Kinshasa, following the establishment of mixed army and police patrols in the town on Sunday night.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6DZ47J?OpenDocument (520 words)

	Rendez-vous à l'hôtel Métropole 222 de Mbandaka (REPORTAGE) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		MBANDAKA (RDCongo), 2 mai (AFP) - La nuit équatoriale n'est pas encore tombée, que, déjà, tout ce que compte Mbandaka de notables et d'Onusiens converge vers l'"hôtel Métroplole 222", une petite gargote en plein air tenue par Désiré le Belge.
		A la table à côté, "monsieur le juge" de Mbandaka et son épouse.
		La nièce du général commence à danser "collé-serré" avec "le" médecin de Mbandaka, puis avec un autre partenaire.
	www.un.int /drcongo/disc14/0000002c.htm (631 words)

	Great Lakes Policy Forum—Meeting Summary—December 2000 - Council on Foreign Relations
		Drawing a line determining where the actual front is remains impossible considering the fact the nature of the fighting which does not resemble sustained fighting between two opposing sides (the Congo and its allies versus Rwanda or Uganda and their allies).
		The Mbandaka region seems to have witnessed fighting activity for the past two months along the Mbandaka-Ikela-Kindu axis with forces heading to Mbuji-Mayi.
		The protection of Mbandaka is seen as the main justification for their being there and its potential fall is seen as resulting in a major loss of face for both countries at home.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=3892 (1515 words)

	Etudes Aequatoria 10: Mbandaka - hier et ajourd'hui. Eléments d'historiographie locale. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Au terme de leur voyage d'études à Mbandaka en 1976, les membres de l'équipe de SICAI constatèrent que cette ville, contrairement à d'autres agglomérations du Zaïre, était peuplée des membres d'un grand nombre d'ethnies.
		A côté des Mbandaka, le territoire de l'actuelle ville était occupé encore par d'autres populations.
		Les Mbandaka de l'actuelle ville et le groupe Mbula sont rangés dans la tribu Ntomba de Eanga (on y reviendra ci-après ch.5).
	www.abbol.com /books/mbandaka.htm (17635 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / UN Says 200 Feared Dead After Congo Ferry Sinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The ferry, called "Convoi Lengi" (Lengi Convoy) and propelled by outboard motors, was traveling from Lukolela, some 450 km (280 miles) upstream on the Congo river from the capital Kinshasa, to Mbandaka.
		U.N. helicopters were dispatched with humanitarian aid to the scene at Lukolela, some 185 km (115 miles) south of Mbandaka on Friday, after survivors told officials they thought 200 people were still unaccounted for.
		Ferry accidents are relatively frequent in the former Zaire, Africa's third largest country, where water transport is often the only way to travel between towns separated by vast distances where good roads are few and far between.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2004/01/31/un_says_200_feared_dead_after_congo_ferry_sinks (462 words)

	UNHCR - Republic of Congo: UNHCR closes DRC Mbandaka office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Kris Janowski – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 5 May 2000, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
		On Sunday, 30 April, UNHCR closed its office in Mbandaka, in the DRC, after flying the last 65 unaccompanied Rwandan refugee children from a center there to Kinshasa.
		The children were the only refugees remaining in Mbandaka from among the thousands who trekked there in 1997.
	www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=3ae6b81ba8&page=home (424 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		MBANDAKA, Congo (AP) -- Not everyone left for home when the United Nations began its first airlift of Rwandan Hutu refugees from this Congo River port.
		U.N. aid workers and Alliance justice minister Mwenze Kongolo, said they had found uniforms of the former Rwandan Armed Forces at several locations where the refugees have been steadily emerging from the forest -- indicating some refugees were members of the former Hutu-dominated army.
		Kongolo, who flew to Mbandaka, 372 miles northeast of Kinshasa, to look into the allegations of massacres, said no killings of refugees had taken place in the region except ``for those who fired on our soldiers.''
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/refflyhome.html (559 words)

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