Qualla: Dongo Conflict https://qualla.com/dongo-conflict en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Dongo Conflict https://qualla.com/dongo-conflict Dongo Conflict: Introduction https://qualla.com/dongo-conflict/ The argument was about fish ponds. Two villages -- Enyele and Monzaya -- had been fighting over them since 1946, more than six decades of low-grade resentment passed down through generations in a small town on the Ubangi River. In July 2009, the dispute finally caught fire. Seven policemen were killed in the initial confrontation, and by the time the violence burned itself out five months later, 168,000 people had fled their homes along the river that divides the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the Republic of the Congo. Dongo, a town most of the world had never heard of, briefly became one of the biggest crises on the United Nations' plate.

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/2/m/p/dongo-conflict-wp/s2mp-dongo-conflict-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dongo Conflict: A Ghost Town on the Ubangi https://qualla.com/dongo-conflict/ Dongo sits on the left bank of the Ubangi River in the Sud-Ubangi District, its frontier with the Republic of the Congo just across the water. By November 2009, the town had emptied. At least 16,000 civilians had crossed to the other side, and the streets held no one. Even member...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/2/m/p/dongo-conflict-wp/s2mp-dongo-conflict-a-ghost-town-on-the-ubangi.mp3 0:06 2 full Dongo Conflict: An Animist Priest and Old Ghosts https://qualla.com/dongo-conflict/ Behind the escalation was an animist priest named Udjani, whose followers included former members of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, the rebel group led by Jean-Pierre Bemba during the Second Congo War of 1998 to 2003. Those old fighters had never fully demobilized, and...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/2/m/p/dongo-conflict-wp/s2mp-dongo-conflict-an-animist-priest-and-old-ghosts.mp3 0:06 3 full Dongo Conflict: Peacekeepers from Four Continents https://qualla.com/dongo-conflict/ The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known as MONUC, scrambled to respond. On December 13, the Congolese army recaptured Dongo from fighters who turned out to be a mix of former soldiers, deserters, and ex-members of the old Zairean army who had been li...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/2/m/p/dongo-conflict-wp/s2mp-dongo-conflict-peacekeepers-from-four-continents.mp3 0:06 4 full Dongo Conflict: 168,000 People in 500 Square Kilometers https://qualla.com/dongo-conflict/ The humanitarian aftermath was staggering in its logistics. Refugees were dispersed across 500 square kilometers of riverbank, making organized aid delivery almost impossible. The UNHCR, working with local staff, set up nine clinics near the densest concentrations of displaced pe...

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