Kindamba
{{Distinguish|Kindamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
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Kindamba is a village in the Kindamba District of Pool Department, Republic of the Congo.
History
Kindamba was a major city in the Pool Department until the mid-1990s, with a population of approximately 16,000. Most residents fled during the Republic of the Civil War, and its schools, hospital and infrastructure were damaged or destroyed, including access to electricity and telecommunications. Most fled, including the World Food Programme station near Kindamba, and when the war concluded, 2–3,000 returned to little food.{{Cite book |last=Bauer |first=Jean-Martin |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Breadline/RwTZEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Kindamba&pg=PA116&printsec=frontcover |title=The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century |date=2024-06-25 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-593-32169-0 |pages=116–117; 123–128 |language=en}}
By the 2000s, the only businesses were market stands, with the butcher being closed by authorities due to concerns of cattle raiding. Humanitarian efforts such as the International Committee of the Red Cross donated supplies, though were sometimes looted by remaining groups of Ninjas.{{Cite web |last=Dorier |first=Elisabeth |last2=Kinouani |first2=Rodrigue |last3=Morand |first3=Erwan |last4=Rouquier |first4=Damien |last5=Fleuret |first5=Quentin |date=2012 |title=A landlocked area in a post-confit situation: the district of Kindamba (Pool, Republic of Congo). Territorial diagnosis in preparation for a Community Development Support Project. |url=https://hal.science/hal-01279960/ |website=HAL}}{{Cite news |date=2004-09-16 |title=In the forgotten Pool, Kindamba’s residents have yet to return |url=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/51375/congo-forgotten-pool-kindamba%E2%80%99s-residents-have-yet-return |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=The New Humanitarian |language=en}} On June 2, 2002, a United Nations helicopter delivered 7.7 megatons of supplies to the community.{{Cite web |date=2002-06-04 |title=Congo: UN aircraft delivers aid to beleaguered Kindamba - Congo {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/congo/congo-un-aircraft-delivers-aid-beleaguered-kindamba |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}} Humanitarian aid presisted through the resurface of the Ninjas in 2017 and 2018, and by 2019, half of the families were malnourished. Aid continues as of 2023.
Transportation
Kindamba is served by Kindamba Airport.{{Cite web |title=KNJ - Kindamba [Kindamba Airport], 12, CG - Airport - Great Circle Mapper |url=http://www.gcmap.com/airport/KNJ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20211108023610/http://www.gcmap.com/airport/KNJ |archive-date=2021-11-08 |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=www.gcmap.com}}
Ecology
In 2020, Kindamba had 254 kilohectares of forest, above 35% of its total area, down 23.7 kilohectares from 2000.{{Cite web |last=Vizzuality |title=Kindamba, Republic of the Congo, Pool Deforestation Rates & Statistics {{!}} GFW |url=https://www.globalforestwatch.org/country/COG/11/2/ |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=www.globalforestwatch.org |language=en}}
Notable people
- Daniel Ndoundou (1911–1986), Protestant church leader{{Cite book |last=Akyeampong |first=Emmanuel Kwaku |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_African_Biography/39JMAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Kindamba&pg=RA3-PA427&printsec=frontcover |title=Dictionary of African Biography |last2=Jr |first2=Professor Henry Louis Gates |date=2012-02-02 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=978-0-19-538207-5 |pages=427 |language=en}}
References
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