Travel Guide Mongo

With its 554 000 inhabitants, the Guéra represents an average administrative region of Chad. Its governorate lies in the centre of a mountain circus. In this massif, traditions have been well kept; and some village names from the language of the Pygmy people allude to the passage of them, refugees nowadays in a few equatorial areas such as Cameroon or the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Freedom of worship creates good complicity between different religions. There are more disagreements between nomadic and sedentary than between Muslims (majority of the population) and Christians. Being at the Sahelian-Sudanese climate border, the hot season is really hot (45 ° C in the shade) and the few months of freshness (November-January) are pleasant, even very cold in the villages of the massif.In the past, all French women in Batha and Guéra came to birth in Mongo, because the city had the most modern hospital; the hospital continues to be a regional benchmark, supported by ngos and national and international associations.Catholic and Protestant missions have been present for several decades. Their efforts, combined with those of the population and those of ngos, are born of commendable initiatives such as the Faith and Joy network that work to educate young children in rural areas. While the commercial activity of the city remains such important gommeraies in the surrounding area. The inhabitants, in good Hadjeray, nevertheless continue to fear margay spirits and avoid irritation on any occasion.