Rio Nunez
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 Franco-Belgian naval forces in action on the Rio Nunez in 1849 |
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Boké Guinea region
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| River system | Rio Nunez | |
| origin | Confluence of the Koua and Gouniou rivers to the Tiguilinta in the Fouta Djallon highlands 10 ° 54 ′ 6 ″ N , 13 ° 50 ′ 16 ″ W |
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| muzzle | near Kanfarandé in the Atlantic Ocean Coordinates: 10 ° 35 ′ 40 " N , 14 ° 40 ′ 30" W 10 ° 35 ′ 40 " N , 14 ° 40 ′ 30" W
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| Catchment area | 6830 km² | |
| Big cities | Boké | |
The Rio Nunez is a river in the Boké region of Guinea , which rises as Tiguilinta in the highlands of Fouta Djallon , flows through the provincial capital Boké and flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Kanfarandé. The Baga and Nalu peoples live on its banks and live from the export of peanuts and rubber.
Rio Nunez incident
The Belgian King Leopold I acquired an area on the Rio Nunez from a chief in 1844 through the businessman Abraham Cohen, but was unable to formally take possession of the area due to British objections, so that Belgian settlers were never able to settle there. In the conflict between the tribes and with Europeans and slave traders, which resulted from the trade between the British and the Fulbe chiefs, a French and a Belgian warship each intervened in 1849, shot at a British trading post and landed a few marines. Their intervention deeply undermined Britain's position of power in the region.
This Rio Nunez incident was hotly debated in the British, French and Belgian public and led to parliamentary investigations (Rio Nunez affair), as a result of which Leopold gave up his claims and the planned establishment of a Belgian colony in 1854 . British demands for French compensation payments were unsuccessful. From 1860 France established itself at the mouth and the banks of the river, occupied Boké in 1878 and finally conquered the whole of Fouta Djallon by 1895.
literature
- Roderick Braithwaite: The Rio Nunez Affair: New perspectives on a significant event in nineteenth century Franco-British colonial rivalry , Outre-Mers, Revue d'histoire 311, 1996, pp. 25-45
- Jutta Bückendorf: Black-white-red over East Africa! Munster 1997
- Robert Raymond Ansiaux: Early Belgian colonial efforts - The long and fateful shadow of Leopold I. The University of Texas at Arlington 2006