Zadié (department)
Department in Ogooué-Ivindo Province, Gabon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zadié is a department of Ogooué-Ivindo Province in northern-eastern Gabon. The capital lies at Mékambo. As of 2013 the department had a population of 15,816 people.[1] The department has a population of Bakoya pygmies, settled here since about 1933 along the main roads from Mékambo to Mazingo and Mékambo to Ekata on the Congolese border.[2] The area received international press for outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in 1994 and 1997.