Mbaiki

Mbaiki
Mbaiki
Coordinates	3 ° 52 ′  N , 17 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 3 ° 52 ′  N , 17 ° 59 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Central African Republic
prefecture	Lobaye
height	514 m
Residents	67,132 (2005)

Mbaiki in Lobaye Prefecture

Mbaiki (also Mbaïki, Mbaki or M'Baiki) is the capital of Lobaye Prefecture in the southwest of the Central African Republic . The city's economy relies on the coffee and wood industries.

The area around Mbaiki is mainly inhabited by Lobayers and Pygmies .

history

Mbaiki, then estimated to have about 4,000 inhabitants, became part of the German colony of Cameroon and the administrative seat of the Central Sanga-Lobaye district through the Morocco-Congo Agreement of November 4, 1911 as part of New Cameroon . The takeover by the 6th Company of the German Schutztruppe took place on February 1st, 1913 by the later district leader Jesco von Puttkamer . At the beginning of March of the same year, the military station was largely destroyed by arson, but the outbreak of unrest was nipped in the bud.

In the First World War occupied by French troops, Mbaiki fell by the Treaty of Versailles returned to French Equatorial Africa .