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Provincial capital and city in Nord-Ubangi, DR Congo
Photo: Radio Okapi/John Bompengo / MONUSCO, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gbadolite is a city of almost 200,000 (2015) in Congo Basin and the ancestral hometown of former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
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Visited by French president François Mitterrand and the Pope John Paul II, it opened as a five-star hotel in 1979. Nowadays, the swimming pool is empty and the facilities are in disrepair, but Motel Nzekele is still open to the few guests that makes it here.
The massively over-sized Gbadolite Airport once saw direct services from Europe, including chartered Concorde flights.
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