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Bangui M'Poko International Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Bangui, CAR

17/35
  
8,530

Code
  
BGF

Owner
  
Government

Elevation AMSL
  
1,208 ft / 368 m

8,530
  
2,600

Elevation
  
368 m

Bangui M'Poko International Airport

Address
  
Avenue de France, Bangui, Central African Republic

Similar
  
Hotel Ledger Plaza Ba, University of Bangui, UNHCR, UNICEF, Hotel Somba

Bangui M'Poko International Airport (French: AĆ©roport international Bangui-M'Poko) (IATA: BGF, ICAO: FEFF) is an international airport located 7 km (4 miles) northwest of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.

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In 2004, the airport served 53,862 passengers.

In 2012, the airport had an average attendance of about 120,000 passengers, despite a maximum capacity of 10,000 passengers.

The airport is currently an unofficial refugee camp for some 60,000 refugees as of May 2014.

Sexual abuse allegations

18 soldiers from France, Chad and Equatorial Guinea were accused of receiving oral sex and sodomizing children at the airport during 2014. Tens of thousands of refugees live at the airport due to the ongoing civil war in the Central African Republic.

Statistics

Bangui Airport Passenger

References

Bangui M'Poko International Airport Wikipedia