Gemena is the capital city of

Sud-Ubangi Sud-Ubangi (French for "South Ubangi") is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. It lies in the northwest of the country on the Ubangi River. Sud-Ubangi, Équateur, Mongala, Nord ...

Province in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

. It has a population of 350,511 (2017). The city has a large

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

and hosts the 10th integrated Brigade of the new

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since 2007.

Mobutu Sese Seko Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997 (known as the Democratic Republic o ...

's mother, Mama Yemo, died in Gemena in 1971; a vast mausoleum was built in her memory.

References

*Crawford Young and Thomas Turner, ''The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State'', p. 174) *http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200705161046.html Populated places in Sud-Ubangi {{DRCongo-geo-stub