Bémaïdé
village in Lim-Pendé, Central African Republic
Bémaïdé is a village located in Lim-Pendé Prefecture, Central African Republic.
History
Following the 1984 Markounda attack, FACA razed Bémaïdé on 4 April 1985 as a punishment for the villagers for supporting Ange-Félix Patassé, François Bozizé, and Alphonse Mbaikoua.
From 2013 to 2017, RJ had a base in Bémaïdé. An armed Chadian group entered the village on 13 January 2021, prompting the villagers to flee to the bush.
Education
Bémaïdé has one school.
Healthcare
There is a health post in the village.
The public source identifies “Bémaïdé” as village in Lim-Pendé, Central African Republic. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bémaïdé, village and Lim-Pendé.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q125121402. Authority coordinates are 7.611, 16.551. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984, 1985, 2013 and 2017.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bémaïdé” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.