Bafwabaka
Bafwabaka is a place in the eastern part of Tshopo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There is/was a Catholic convent. In the 1964 civil war, all 46 nuns were kidnapped by Simba rebels and taken to Wamba, and later to Isiro where some of them were killed, among them Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 690 metres (2,260 feet)
- Description: place in Tshopo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category: human settlement
- Location
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Latitude
0.58333° or 0° 35′ north
Longitude
27.38333° or 27° 23′ east
Open location code
6GG9H9MM+88
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Lingala—“Bafwabaka” goes by many names.
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