Nunez River

French -Belgian naval forces in the Battle of Rio Nunez 1849

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The Rio Nunez is a river in the Boké region of Guinea, which rises in the highlands as the Fouta Djallon Tiguilinta, the provincial capital Boké flows and flows at Kanfarandé in the Atlantic Ocean. On its shores, the peoples of the Baga and Nalu, who live on the export of peanuts or rubber life.

Rio Nunez incident

The Belgian King Leopold I. had acquired in 1844 the businessman Abraham Cohen by a chief an area on the Rio Nunez, however, the area can not take formal possession due to British objections, so that there could never settle Belgian settlers. In the resulting from trade between the British and the Fulani chiefs of the tribes of conflict between themselves and with Europeans and slave traders attacked in 1849 together ever a French and a Belgian warship an bombarded a British trading post and landed some Marines. Your intervention undermined the British position of power in the region sustainable.

This Rio Nunez incident was hotly debated in the British, French and Belgian public and led to parliamentary inquiries ( Rio Nunez Affair ), his claims and thus the planned Belgian colony founding abandoned in consequence Leopold 1854. From 1860, France has also set at the mouth and on the banks of the river finds occupied in 1878 Boké and conquered until 1895 Fouta Djallon finally completely.