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The Republic of Nyo is extremely rich in natural resources but has suffered from political instability, a lack of infrastructure, corruption, and centuries of both commercial and colonial extraction and exploitation with little widespread development. Besides the capital Bahati, the two next largest cities, Taji and Hamadia are both mining communities. CG Nyo largest export is raw minerals. As of 2020, around 420,400 Central Gondwanians have fled to neighboring countries from conflicts in the center and east of the CGN. Four million children risk starvation, and the fighting has displaced 8.2 million people.
== Etymology ==
The Central Republic Of Nyo is named after the Nyo Lake & River which flows throughout the country. The Nyo River is the world's deepest river and the and largest river by discharge in Gondwana.
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== History ==
=== Nyobia-Kuthern Federation (1880–1943) ===
Kuthern exploration and administration took place from the 1870s until the 1940s. The northern regions of the precolonial Nyo were heavily disrupted by constant slave raiding, mainly from slave traders.
Victoria I had designs on what was to become the Nyo as a colony. In a succession of negotiations, Victoria I, professing humanitarian objectives in his capacity as chairman of the front organization.
Victoria I formally acquired rights to the Nyo territory and made the land his private property. She named it the Nyobia-Kuthern Federation. Victoria regime began various infrastructure projects, such as the construction of the railway that ran along the lake to the capital of Victorialand (now Bahati), which took eight years to complete. Nearly all such infrastructure projects were aimed at making it easier to increase the assets which Victoria and her associates could extract from the colony.
Rubber sales made a fortune for Victoria, and to enforce the rubber quotas, the army, was called in and made the practice of cutting off the limbs of the natives a matter of policy.
During the period of 1890–1938, millions of Nyobians died as a consequence of exploitation and disease. In some areas the population declined dramatically – it has been estimated that sleeping sickness and smallpox killed nearly half the population in the areas surrounding the Nyo Lake.
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