The Baloi of Congo, Democratic Republic of the, numbering approximately 42,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Bantu river people of the Congo River near Bomongo in DR Congo's Equateur province, part of the Northern Mongo/Bangi ethnolinguistic cluster, historically dominating canoe-based trade and known for large ceremonial slit drums They are an Indigenous people, with Loi, Baloi as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Bantu, Central-Congo people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Roman Catholicism. They primarily speak Baloi.