Quardu Gboni District
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Quardu Gboni District (also Quardu Bondi, Quardu Gbondi) is an administrative district of Lofa County in Liberia. In 2008, it had a population of 18,785.{{Cite report |url=http://www.lisgis.net/pg_img/NPHC%202008%20Final%20Report.pdf |title=2008 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS |last= |first= |date=May 2009 |publisher=Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services |issue= |doi= |volume= |page=13 |pmid= |access-date=January 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308110222/http://www.lisgis.net/pg_img/NPHC%202008%20Final%20Report.pdf |archive-date=2021-03-08}}
An 80-year long boundary dispute between Quardu Gboni and Voinjama districts, over land near the villages of Sarmodu and Selega, resulted in a moratorium being placed for the land in late 2018.{{Cite web |last=Kamara |first=Varney |date=May 2, 2019 |title=Land Dispute Driving Villages into Poverty in Lofa |url=https://newnarratives.org/featured/land-dispute-driving-villages-into-poverty-in-lofa/ |access-date=June 2, 2023 |website=New Narratives |publisher=Liberian Network}} The dispute was eventually settled in 2020, with the border between the districts being the Daziza Creek.{{Cite web |last=Ndupellar |first=Johnson |date=September 2020 |title=At long last, 80 year old Boundary dispute is settled in Lofa County |url=https://www.mia.gov.lr/2press.php?news_id=263&related=7&pg=sp |access-date=June 2, 2023 |website= |publisher=Ministry of Internal Affairs}}
The district is predominantly Mandingo (99%) who are all Maliki Muslims.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} According to LISGIS 2008 report, the region is about a little over {{convert|33,000|ha}} of land with over thirty human settlements. Barkedu is the largest town in the district.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}
Notable residents
- Edward Kesselly, politician who founded the Unity Party
- G. V. Kromah, resistance leader during the First Liberian Civil War
References
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