The town lies on the left (west) bank of the Logone River which at this point forms the state boundary between Cameroon and Chad.

[1] Logone-Birne means Fort Logone and was founded around 1700 by Prince Bruha.

He reported: Logone-Birni has been suggested as the birthplace of Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696-1781), a General in the Imperial Russian Army and great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin.

As Hugh Barnes suggested this may have arisen from the generic use of the term "Ethiopian" to cover all of Africa.

[1] Logone-Birni has given its name to the Logone Birni Basin, which covers an area of 27,000 km2 and is part of the West and Central African Rift System.