Bafwabaka
title: "Bafwabaka" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-tshopo"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-tshopo" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bafwabaka" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Bafwabaka |
| native_name_lang | |
| pushpin_map | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Tshopo |
| unit_pref | Metric |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = Bafwabaka | native_name = | native_name_lang = | settlement_type = | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_alt = | image_seal = | seal_alt = | image_shield = | shield_alt = | nickname = | motto = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Democratic Republic of the Congo | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = | coordinates = | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Democratic Republic of the Congo | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Tshopo | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | seat_type = | seat = | government_footnotes = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_water_percent = | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_note = | timezone1 = | utc_offset1 = | timezone1_DST = | utc_offset1_DST = | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code_type = | area_code = | iso_code = | website = | footnotes = Bafwabaka is a place in the eastern part of Tshopo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There is/was a Catholic convent. In the 1964 civil war, all 46 nuns were kidnapped by Simba rebels and taken to Wamba, and later to Isiro where some of them were killed, among them Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta.
References
References
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::