Draft:Sultanate of Rafaï

The Sultanate of Rafaï (Sango: Sultanâti tî Rafaï) or simply Rafaï (Rah-fah-EE), also known as the Kingdom of Rafaï, was a African sultanate, centered around Rafaï between the modern day border of the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. Rafaï became a sovereign state around the mid 1800s, it declined in the 20th century. And later, it became apart of the Ubangi-Shari Colony in 1909 and their chances of return were destroyed when the French capture Sultan Muhammad al-Sanussi in 1911.