The Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

, often referred to as DR Congo, DRC or RDC, and formerly known or referred to as Congo Free State

Congo Free State

The Congo Free State was a large area in Central Africa which was privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians. Its origins lay in Leopold's attracting scientific, and humanitarian backing for a non-governmental organization, the Association internationale africaine...

, Belgian Congo

Belgian Congo

The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo between King Leopold II's formal relinquishment of his personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November 1908, and Congolese independence on 30 June 1960.-Congo Free State, 1884–1908:Until the latter...

, Congo-Léopoldville

Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)

The Republic of the Congo was an independent republic established following the independence granted to the former colony of the Belgian Congo in 1960...

, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zaire

Zaire

The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...

(or Zaïre in French), is the third largest country by area on the African continent

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

. Though it is located in the Central Africa

Central Africa

Central Africa is a core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda....

n UN subregion, the nation is economically and regionally affiliated with Southern Africa

Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. Within the region are numerous territories, including the Republic of South Africa ; nowadays, the simpler term South Africa is generally reserved for the country in English.-UN...

 as a member of the Southern African Development Community

Southern African Development Community

The Southern African Development Community is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. Its goal is to further socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security cooperation among 15 southern African states...

 (SADC). It borders the Central African Republic

Central African Republic

The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...

 and Sudan

Sudan

Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

 on the north, Uganda

Uganda

Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

, Rwanda

Rwanda

Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

, and Burundi

Burundi

Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...

 on the east, Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

 and Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

 on the south, the Republic of the Congo

Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo , sometimes known locally as Congo-Brazzaville, is a state in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda, and the Gulf of Guinea.The region was dominated by...

 on the west, and is separated from Tanzania

Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

 by Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...

 on the east. The country enjoys access to the ocean through a forty-kilometre stretch of Atlantic coastline at Muanda

Muanda

Muanda or Moanda is a town lying on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo at the mouth of the Congo River. It is situated in Bas-Congo Province, and has a population of 50,000...

 and the roughly nine-kilometre wide mouth of the Congo river

Congo River

The Congo River is a river in Africa, and is the deepest river in the world, with measured depths in excess of . It is the second largest river in the world by volume of water discharged, though it has only one-fifth the volume of the world's largest river, the Amazon...

 which opens into the Gulf of Guinea

Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean between Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian is in the gulf....

. The name "Congo" (meaning "hunter") is coined after the Bakongo

Kongo people

The Bakongo or the Kongo people , also sometimes referred to as Kongolese or Congolese, is a Bantu ethnic group which lives along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire to Luanda, Angola...

 ethnic group who live in the Congo river basin.

Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo include:

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• Aba, DR Congo
  Aba, DR Congo
  Aba is a city in the northeastern regions of the province of Orientale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; it is near the border with South Sudan.-Transport:It is served by Aba Airport....
  
  
• Abacost
  Abacost
  The abacost, abbreviation for the French "à bas le costume" , was the distinctive wear for men that was promoted by Mobutu Sese Seko as part of his Zairianisation programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, between 1972 and 1990. Zairians were banned from wearing suits with shirt and tie to...
  
  
• ABAKO
  ABAKO
  ABAKO or Alliance des Bakongo was a cultural and political organization, headed by Joseph Kasa-Vubu, which emerged in the late 1950s as vocal opponent of Belgian colonial rule in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• AC Sodigraf
  AC Sodigraf
  Athletic Club Sodigraf is a Congolese football club based in Kinshasa. Their home games are played at Stade des Martyrs. -Achievements:*African Cup Winners' Cup**Finalist : 1996*Coupe du Congo: 1-Performance in CAF competitions:...
  
  
• Administrative divisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Administrative divisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  -Territorial Organisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:Reference : The administrative hierarchy of Political subdivisions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is as follows* Province ** Mairies *** Cities...
  
  
• African Fiesta
  African Fiesta
  L'Orchestra African Fiesta, often known simply as African Fiesta, was a Congolese soukous band started by Tabu Ley Rochereau and Dr. Nico Kasanda in 1963.Tabu Ley and Dr. Nico were originally members of the seminal band Grand Kalle et l'African Jazz...
  
  
• Agence nationale de renseignements
  Agence nationale de renseignements
  Agence Nationale de Renseignements is a government intelligence agency of theDemocratic Republic of the Congo. The role of the agency is to ensure «internal security and external security » of the state....
  
  
• Ahmat Acyl
• Air Congo
• Air Kasai
  Air Kasai
  Air Kasai is an airline based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It operates charter services within Africa. Its main base is N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa....
  
  
• Air Tropiques
  Air Tropiques
  Air Tropiques is an airline based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It operates domestic, regional and charter flights. Its main base is N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa.The airline is on the List of air carriers banned in the European Union.-History:...
  
  
• Air Zaïre
  Air Zaïre
  Air Zaïre was the national airline of the African nation of Zaire. Its head office was located on the grounds of N'djili Airport in Kinshasa.-Air Congo:...
  
  
• Aka (Pygmy tribe)
  Aka (Pygmy tribe)
  The Aka or Bayaka are a nomadic Mbenga pygmy people who live by hunting. Although the Aka people call themselves BiAka, they are also known as Babenzele in Western Central African Republic and Northwest Congo ....
  
  
• Albertine Rift montane forests
  Albertine Rift montane forests
  The Albertine Rift montane forests ecoregion, of the Tropical moist broadleaf forest Biome, are in the heart of Afromontane tropical Africa.-Location and description:...
  
  
• Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo
  Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo
  The Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire was a coalition of Congolese dissidents, disgruntled minority groups and nations that toppled President Mobutu Sese Seko and brought Laurent Kabila to power in the First Congo War...
  
  
• Alliance of the Presidential Majority
  Alliance of the Presidential Majority
  The Alliance of the Presidential Majority is a political alliance formed by supporters of President-elect Joseph Kabila following the 2006 general elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This bloc currently holds the majority of seats in the National Assembly with 332 out of 500...
  
  
• Alur language
  Alur language
  Alur is spoken in northwestern Uganda and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo by the Alur people.Dialects*Jokot*Jonam *Mambisa*Wanyoro- Phonetics :VowelsAlur has 9 vowels....
  
  
• Alur people
  Alur people
  Alur are an ethnic group who live mainly in the Nebbi, Zombo, and Arua districts in northwestern Uganda, but also in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, north of Lake Albert. They are part of the larger Luo group, and their language is closely related to Acholi...
  
  
• Álvaro I of Kongo
  Álvaro I of Kongo
  Álvaro I Nimi a Lukeni lua Mvemba was a Manikongo , or king of Kongo, from 1568 to 1587.-Biography:Álvaro's father was an unknown Kongo nobleman who died, leaving his mother to remarry to King Henrique I. When Henrique I died fighting on the eastern frontier, he had left Álvaro as his regent...
  
  
• American School of Kinshasa
  American School of Kinshasa
  The American School of Kinshasa is an English-using international school in Kinshasa, which is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is an independent, coeducational day school which offers an educational program covering kindergarten through to grade 12...
  
  
• Aouzou Strip
• Armed Forces of the North
  Armed Forces of the North
  The Armed Forces of the North was a Chadian rebel army active during the Chadian Civil War. Composed of FROLINAT units that remained loyal to Hissène Habré following his break from Goukouni Oueddei and the CCFAN in 1976...
  
  
• Army for the Liberation of Rwanda
  Army for the Liberation of Rwanda
  The Army for the Liberation of Rwanda was a rebel group largely composed of members of the Interahamwe and Armed Forces of Rwanda that carried out the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Operating mostly in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo along the border with Rwanda, it carried...
  
  
• Aruwimi River
  Aruwimi River
  The Aruwimi River is a tributary of the Congo River, located to the north and east of the Congo.The Aruwimi begins as the Ituri River, which arises near Lake Albert, in the savannas north of the Kibale River watershed. It then runs generally south southwest until it is joined by the Shari River...
  
  
• AS Dragons
  AS Dragons
  Amicale Sportive Dragons is a Congolese football club based in Kinshasa. As of the 2007/2008 season they play in the Linafoot league, the top level of professional football in DR Congo...
  
  
• AS Kabasha
  AS Kabasha
  AS Kabasha is a football club in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. They play in the Linafoot, the top level of professional football in DR Congo. -Performance in CAF competitions:*CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance...
  
  
• AS Vita Club
  AS Vita Club
  AS Vita Club is a Congolese football club based in Kinshasa.-Honours:*African Cup of Champions Clubs: 0**Winner : 1973**Finalist : 1981*Linafoot: 12**Champion : 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1988, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2010...
  
  
• Atoki Ileka
  Atoki Ileka
  Atoki Christian Ileka is the ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations. He previously served as a minister as well as diplomatically in Greece and Haiti. He attended the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. Married with four children, he started his diplomatic...
  
  
• Authenticité (Zaire)
  Authenticité (Zaire)
  Authenticité was an official state ideology of the Mobutu regime that originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in what was first the Democratic Republic of the Congo, later renamed Zaire...
  
  
• Avokaya language
  Avokaya language
  Avokaya is a Central Sudanic language spoken in southern South Sudan and parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Avokaya speakers occupy a contiguous area along both sides of the international boundary, with Maridi in South Sudan and Faradje in Congo as the main centres of the language...
  
  
• Avukaya
  Avukaya
  Avukaya is an ethnic group of South Sudan. Some members of this ethnic have fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo due to persecution. About 50 000 members of this ethnic group live in South Sudan. Many members of this ethnic group belong to the Christian minority of South Sudan...
  
  

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• Bafuku
• Baka (Cameroon and Gabon)
  Baka (Cameroon and Gabon)
  The Baka, known in the Congo as Bayaka , are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rainforests of Cameroon, northern Republic of Congo, northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic. They are sometimes called a subgroup of the Twa, but the two peoples are not closely related...
  
  
• Bambuti mythology
  Bambuti mythology
  Mbuti mythology is the mythology of the African Mbuti Pygmies of Congo.The most important god of the Bambuti pantheon is Khonvoum , a god of the hunt who wields a bow made from two snakes that together appear to humans as a rainbow...
  
  
• Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Banana is a small seaport in Bas-Congo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Atlantic coast. The port is situated in Banana Creek, an inlet about 1 km wide on the north bank of the Congo River's mouth, separated from the ocean by a spit of land 3 km long and 100 to 400 m...
  
  
• Banda people
  Banda people
  Banda is an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, some of who also live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and South Sudan....
  
  
• Bandalungwa
  Bandalungwa
  Bandalungwa is a municipality in the Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Its northern portion is occupied by the military barracks of Kokolo, whose buildings prominently display traditional Flemish architecture. The barracks is separated from...
  
  
• Bandundu Airport
  Bandundu Airport
  Bandundu Airport is an airport serving Bandundu, a city in the Bandundu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Facilities :The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with an asphalt surface measuring .-Accidents and incidents:Two...
  
  
• Bandundu Province
  Bandundu Province
  Bandundu is one of the ten provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It borders the provinces of Kinshasa and Bas-Congo to the west, Équateur to the north, and Kasai-Occidental to the east. The provincial capital is also called Bandundu .In 1966, Bandundu was formed by merging the three...
  
  
• Bandundu
  Bandundu
  Bandundu, formerly known as Banningville or Banningstad, is a city in Bandundu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Bandundu is the capital of Bandundu Province. It is located on the north bank of the Kwango River, just below the juncture of the Kwango and the Kwilu, 8 km upstream from...
  
  
• Bangala language
  Bangala language
  Bangala, or Ngala, is a Bantu language spoken in the northeast part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in South Sudan, and the extreme western part of Uganda. A divergent form of Lingala, it's used as a lingua franca by people with different languages and rarely as a first language. The...
  
  
• Bangassou
  Bangassou
  Bangassou is a city in the south eastern Central African Republic, lying on the north bank of the Mbomou River. It has a population of 24,447 and is the capital of the Mbomou prefecture. It is known for its wildlife and its market and is linked by ferry to the Democratic Republic of Congo on the...
  
  
• Bangoka International Airport
  Bangoka International Airport
  Bangoka International Airport is an airport in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.From November 2009 until June 2011 Kenya Airways connected Bangoka International Airport to Nairobi three times a week...
  
  
• Banque Centrale du Congo central bank
• Banyamulenge
  Banyamulenge
  The Banyamulenge is a term historically describing the ethnic Tutsi Rwandans concentrated on the High Plateau of South Kivu, in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , close to the Burundi-Congo-Rwanda border...
  
  
• Barumbu
  Barumbu
  Barumbu is a municipality in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is situated in the north of Kinshasa, south of Gombe and the Boulevard du 30 Juin...
  
  
• Basankusu Airport
  Basankusu Airport
  Basankusu Airport is an airport in Basankusu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Scheduled services:...
  
  
• Basankusu
  Basankusu
  Basankusu is a town in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the main town and administrative centre of the Territory of Basankusu. It boasts an airport, covered and open markets, a hospital and two recently installed cellphone networks....
  
  
• Bas-Congo
  Bas-Congo
  Bas-Congo is one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the only province with a coastline and it borders Bandundu province to the east and Kinshasa to the northeast...
  
  
• Bas-Uele Province
  Bas-Uele Province
  Bas-Uele is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution . It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months...
  
  
• Battle of Fada
  Battle of Fada
  The battle of Fada took place in northern Chad in 1987, and was a turning point of the Libyan-Chadian War.- Prelude :At the beginning of 1986 the Libyans controlled all Chad north of the 16th parallel...
  
  
• Battle of Maaten al-Sarra
  Battle of Maaten al-Sarra
  The battle of Maaten al-Sarra was a battle fought between Chad and Libya on September 5, 1987 during the Toyota War. The battle took the form of a surprise Chadian raid against the Libyan Maaten al-Sarra Air Base, meant to remove the threat of Libyan airpower, that had already thwarted the Chadian...
  
  
• Belgian Congo general election, 1960
  Belgian Congo general election, 1960
  General elections were held in the Belgian Congo on 22 May 1960, in order to create a government to rule the country following independence, scheduled for 30 June. The 137-seat Chamber of Representatives was elected by men over the age of 21...
  
  
• Belgian Congo
  Belgian Congo
  The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo between King Leopold II's formal relinquishment of his personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November 1908, and Congolese independence on 30 June 1960.-Congo Free State, 1884–1908:Until the latter...
  
  
• Belgium
  Belgium
  Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
  
  
• Bemba language
  Bemba language
  The Bemba language, ChiBemba , is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups, including the Bisa people of Mpika and Lake Bangweulu, and to a lesser extent in Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the...
  
  
• Bemba people
  Bemba people
  The Bemba belong to a large group of peoples mainly in the Northern, Luapula and Copperbelt Provinces of Zambia who trace their origins to the Luba and Lunda states of the upper Congo basin, in what became Katanga Province in southern Congo-Kinshasa...
  
  
• Bembe (ethnic group)
  Bembe (ethnic group)
  The Bembe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania. In 1991 the Bembe population of the DRC was estimated to number 252,000, with no estimate available for the number of Bembe in Tanzania...
  
  
• Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Beni is a town in north eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, lying immediately west of the Virunga National Park and the Rwenzori Mountains, on the edge of the Ituri Forest.-Overview:...
  
  
• Bikoro
  Bikoro
  Bikoro is a market town in Équateur Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on Lake Tumba, south of Mbandaka....
  
  
• Bili Forest
  Bili Forest
  The Bili Forest is located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa in the Bas-Uele District. It lies between the Ubangui River to the north and the Uele River to the south, and is named after the small nearby town of Bili which is about 200 km east of Bondo and 250 km north of...
  
  
• Bills
  Bills
  The Bills were a youth subculture that thrived in Léopoldville in the late 1950s, basing much of their image and outlook on the cowboys of American Western movies...
  
  
• Blue Mountains (Congo)
  Blue Mountains (Congo)
  The Blue Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To the east the range overlooks Lake Albert, at the confluence of the Victoria Nile and Albert Nile, which form part of the border with Uganda...
  
  
• Boende
  Boende
  Boende is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on the Tshuapa River, east of Mbandaka. It is the capital of Tshuapa District. It is a river port with ferries sailing to Kinshasa via Mbandanka and is also home to an airport. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 36,158. The...
  
  
• Bolenge
  Bolenge
  Bolenge is a village located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located exactly where the geographic equator intersects the Congo River, formerly the Zaire River. Henry Morton Stanley reputedly stopped at Bolenge during his epic voyage across the central Africa during the 19th...
  
  
• Boma Airport
  Boma Airport
  Boma Airport is an airport serving Boma, in the Bas-Congo province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.-Facilities:The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level and has one runway which is long....
  
  
• Boma, Congo
• Bondo, DR Congo
  Bondo, DR Congo
  Bondo is a town in north-central Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Bas-Uele District, Orientale Province, about 200 km north-west of Buta. Bondo lies mainly on the north bank of the Uele River. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 19,601....
  
  
• Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture
• Boulevard du 30 Juin
  Boulevard du 30 Juin
  The Boulevard du 30 Juin is a major 5‑km street in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the city's main transport artery, connecting the southern area of La Gombe with Kintambo and the Ngaliema to the west.The street was renamed from Boulevard Albert I to Boulevard du...
  
  
• Boyoma Falls
  Boyoma Falls
  Boyoma Falls, formerly known as Stanley Falls, consists of seven cataracts, each no more than 15' high, extending over more than along a curve of the Lualaba River between the river port towns of Ubundu and Kisangani/Boyoma in the Orientale region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.At the...
  
  
• Bravo Air Congo
  Bravo Air Congo
  Bravo Air Congo was an airline based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo operating domestic and regional passenger services. Its main base was N'djili Airport.The airline was listed on the List of air carriers banned in the European Union....
  
  
• Brazzaville
  Brazzaville
  -Transport:The city is home to Maya-Maya Airport and a railway station on the Congo-Ocean Railway. It is also an important river port, with ferries sailing to Kinshasa and to Bangui via Impfondo...
  
  
• Bukavu
  Bukavu
  Bukavu is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo , lying at the extreme south-eastern extent of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River. It is the capital of the Sud-Kivu province and as of 2009 it had an estimated population of...
  
  
• Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Bumba is a town and river port in Mongala District, in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on the River Congo. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 107,626.- Transport :...
  
  
• Bumbu
  Bumbu
  Bumbu is a municipality in the Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The town is in the hilled southern portion of Kinshasa and settlement there is relatively new. It lies in the vicinity of the Kasa-Vubu and Kalamu boulevards.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Bundu dia Kongo
  Bundu dia Kongo
  Bundu dia Kongo is a politico-cultural movement founded in June 1969 by Ne Mwanda Nsemi. The movement is mainly based in the Bas-Congo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The movement focuses on defending, protecting, and promoting values, rights, and interests of Kongo people in the...
  
  
• Bunia Airport
  Bunia Airport
  Bunia Airport is an airport in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Airlines and destinations:...
  
  
• Bunia
  Bunia
  Bunia is a city in Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the headquarters of Ituri Interim Administration in the Ituri region of Orientale Province....
  
  
• Burundi
  Burundi
  Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...
  
  
• Business Aviation
  Business Aviation
  Business Aviation was an airline based in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established in 1998 and operated scheduled domestic and international services, as well as charter flights and wet-lease services. Its main base was N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa...
  
  
• Buta
  Buta
  Buta is a town and seat of Buta Territory in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on the Rubi River, a tributary of the Itimbiri River. It is headquarters of the Bas-Uele District, Orientale Province...
  
  
• Butembo
  Butembo
  Butembo is a city in North Kivu, in the north eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, lying west of the Virunga National Park. Until the Congo Civil War, it was an important commercial centre with a large market, a cathedral, a small hospital, and an airport, lying in an area known for tea and...
  
  

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• Cabinda Province
• .cd
  .cd
  .cd is the Internet country code top-level domain for the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was created in 1997 as a replacement for the .zr ccTLD, which was phased out and eventually deleted in 2001....
  
  
• Central African Republic
  Central African Republic
  The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...
  
  
• Central Bank of the Congo
  Central Bank of the Congo
  The Central Bank of the Congo is the central bank of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The bank's main offices are on Boulevard Colonel Tshatshi in La Gombe in Kinshasa.-Regional Operations:...
  
  
• Centre National d’Appui au Développement et à la Participation populaire
• Chadian Armed Forces
  Chadian Armed Forces
  The Chadian Armed Forces were the army of the central government of Chad from 1960 to 1979, under the southern presidents François Tombalbaye and Félix Malloum, until the downfall of the latter in 1979, when the head of the gendarmerie, Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué, assumed command...
  
  
• Chadian National Armed Forces
  Chadian National Armed Forces
  The Chadian National Armed Forces was the army of the central government of Chad from January 1983, when the President Hissène Habré's forces, in first place his personal Armed Forces of the North , were merged...
  
  
• Chadian-Libyan conflict
• Chromium
  Chromium
  Chromium is a chemical element which has the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6. It is a steely-gray, lustrous, hard metal that takes a high polish and has a high melting point. It is also odorless, tasteless, and malleable...
  
  
• Coat of arms of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Coat of arms of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The arms of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has changed several times since 1997. The current one was introduced in 2006 and depicts a leopard head, surrounded by an elephant tusk to the left and a spear to the right. Below are the three words which make up the national motto: Justice, Paix,...
  
  
• Cobalt
  Cobalt
  Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. It is found naturally only in chemically combined form. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal....
  
  
• Codos
  Codos
  The Codos or Commandos were guerrilla groups, active in southern Chad from 1983 to 1986, that resisted domination of their region by the President Hissène Habré's army. Many were veterans of the government army of the 1970s or Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué's Chadian Armed Forces , which had collapsed...
  
  
• Colonial heads of Congo
  Colonial heads of Congo
  -List of Colonial Heads of Congo:For continuation after independence, see: List of heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-Sources:*http://www.rulers.org/rulc3.html#congo_kinshasa*African States and Rulers, John Stewart, McFarland...
  
  
• Colonisation of the Congo
  Colonisation of the Congo
  Colonization of the Congo refers to the period from Henry Morton Stanley's first exploration of the Congo until its annexation as a personal possession of King Leopold II of Belgium .-Early European exploration:...
  
  
• Comazar
  Comazar
  Comazar is a company that operates railways in Africa. Its stock is majority owned by the French investment group Bolloré.Comazar was founded by Eric Peiffer and Patrick Claes in conjunction with Transnet and Transurb Consult in 1995.The headquarters are in Johannesburg.- Related organizations...
  
  
• Communes of Kinshasa
• Communications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Communications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Telephones - main lines in use:20,000 , 36,000 Telephones - mobile cellular:2,600 000 , 15,000 , 10,000 Telephone system:general assessment: poordomestic:...
  
  
• Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation
  Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation
  Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation is a Congolese airline based in the Building CAA in Kinshasa. It was established in 1992 and operates passenger and cargo services to eight domestic destinations. Its main base is N'djili Airport...
  
  
• Congo Airlines
  Congo Airlines
  Congo Airlines was an airline based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It joined with Zaire Airlines and Zaire Express to become Hewa Bora Airways.-Former Code Data:*IATA Code: EO*ICAO Code: ALX*Callsign: ALLCONGO-References:...
  
  
• Congo Crisis
  Congo Crisis
  The Congo Crisis was a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo that began with national independence from Belgium and ended with the seizing of power by Joseph Mobutu...
  
  
• Congo DR national football team
  Congo DR national football team
  The Congo DR national football team is the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is controlled by the Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association , and are nicknamed The Leopards.Congo have been ranked as high as 51 in the FIFA Rankings...
  
  
• Congo Express
  Congo Express
  Congo Express is a regional airline in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that commenced operations on 1 February 2010 on two routes flying out of Kinshasa. It currently flies only one route, between Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. It is a partnership between BizAfrika Congo, a Congolese company, and...
  
  
• Congo Free State
  Congo Free State
  The Congo Free State was a large area in Central Africa which was privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians. Its origins lay in Leopold's attracting scientific, and humanitarian backing for a non-governmental organization, the Association internationale africaine...
  
  
• Chongo si cholo
• Congo Pedicle
  Congo Pedicle
  The Congo Pedicle refers to the southeast salient of the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo which sticks into neighbouring Zambia almost dividing it into two lobes, like the wings of a butterfly. In area the pedicle is similar in size to Wales or New Jersey...
  
  
• Congo Railroad
• Congo Reform Association
  Congo Reform Association
  The Congo Reform Association exposed gross and rampant abuses of labor and by public servants in King Leopold II of Belgium's Congo Free State, leading to the annexation of Congo by Belgium in 1908. In March, 1904, Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness , Edmund Dene Morel, and Roger Casement founded the Congo...
  
  
• Congo River
  Congo River
  The Congo River is a river in Africa, and is the deepest river in the world, with measured depths in excess of . It is the second largest river in the world by volume of water discharged, though it has only one-fifth the volume of the world's largest river, the Amazon...
  
  
• Congolese franc
  Congolese franc
  The franc is the currency of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is subdivided into 100 centimes.-First franc, 1887-1967:During Belgian colonial rule, currency denominated in centimes and francs was issued for use in Congo. These francs were equal in value to the Belgian franc. From 1916, the...
  
  
• Congolese hip hop
• Congolese National Movement–Lumumba
• Congolese Rally for Democracy
• Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the basic law governing the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Constitution has been changed and/or replaced several times since its independence in 1960.- Current Constitution :...
  
  
• Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Constitutional Court was established by the Constitution of the Third Republic on 18 February 2006. It is the highest constitutional authority in the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
  
  
• Copper mining
• Copper
  Copper
  Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...
  
  
• Copperbelt
• Coupe du Congo
  Coupe du Congo
  For the equivalent tournament in the Republic of the Congo, see Coupe du Congo de football.The Coupe du Congo is the top knockout tournament of the Congolese football...
  
  
• Court of Cassation (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  Court of Cassation (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  The Court of Cassation is the main court of last resort in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has its seat in the Kinshasa Palace of Justice....
  
  
• Cuisine of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Cuisine of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The cuisine of the Democratic Republic of the Congo varies widely, representing the food of indigenous people. Cassava is generally the staple food usually eaten with other side dishes.-Common Congolese foods and dishes:...
  
  
• Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reflects much of the diversity of its hundreds of ethnic groups and their differing ways of life throughout the country—from the mouth of the River Congo on the coast, upriver through the rainforest and savanna in its centre, to the more densely...
  
  
• Cyangugu
  Cyangugu
  Cyangugu is a city and capital of the Rusizi district of Western Province, Rwanda. The city lies at the southern end of Lake Kivu, and is contiguous with Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, but separated from it by the Ruzizi River...
  
  
• Congo-Brazzavile (Republic of the Congo)
  Republic of the Congo
  The Republic of the Congo , sometimes known locally as Congo-Brazzaville, is a state in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda, and the Gulf of Guinea.The region was dominated by...
  
  

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• Daring Club Motema Pembe
  Daring Club Motema Pembe
  Daring Club Motema Pembe is a Congolese football club based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.-History:Founded in the 1936 as Daring, the club changed its name to CS Imana some time after 1949...
  
  
• DC Virunga
  DC Virunga
  DC Virunga is a Congolese football club based in Goma. Their home games are played at Stade de Virunga.-Achievements:*Nord-Kivu Provincial League : 2...
  
  
• Debout Congolais
  Debout Congolais
  Debout Congolais is the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was first adopted in 1960 upon independence but replaced in 1971 when the country became Zaire. Then it was replaced by La Zaïroise. It was reinstated when Laurent Kabila came to power in 1997...
  
  
• DEMIAP
  DEMIAP
  DEMIAP was the military intelligence organization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Democratic Confederation of Labour (DRC)
• Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
  Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
  The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda is the primary remnant Rwandan Hutu Power rebel group in the east of the of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is often referred to as simply the FDLR after its original French name: the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda...
  
  
• Democratic Republic of the Congo constitutional referendum, 2005
  Democratic Republic of the Congo constitutional referendum, 2005
  A referendum on a proposed new constitution for the Democratic Republic of Congo was held on December 18 and December 19, 2005. It was approved, paving the way for the country's elections to be held in 2006....
  
  
• Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2006
  Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2006
  General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 30, 2006, the first multiparty elections in the country in 41 years. Voters went to the polls to elect both a new President of the Republic and a new National Assembly, the lower-house of the Parliament.The polls were...
  
  
• Democratic Republic of the Congo gubernatorial elections, 2007
  Democratic Republic of the Congo gubernatorial elections, 2007
  Gubernatorial elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 27 January 2007 , though they were originally scheduled for 16 January and 19 January...
  
  
• Democratic Republic of the Congo Senate election, 2007
  Democratic Republic of the Congo Senate election, 2007
  Elections to the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were held on 2007-01-19, though they had originally been scheduled for 2007-01-16...
  
  
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...
  
  
• Democratic Social Christian Party
  Democratic Social Christian Party
  The Democratic Social Christian Party is a political party in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is headed by former Mobutu-era prime minister André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, and was co-founded by Lokonga and Joseph Ileo in 1990....
  
  
• Demographics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Demographics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
  
  
• Depara
  Depara
  Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara, known as Depara , was an Angolan-born photographer who worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
  
  
• Diamonds
• Djokupunda
  Djokupunda
  Djokupunda, also spelt Djoko Punda and known in colonial times as Charlesville, is a small town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Mennonite mission of the Congo Inland Mission was founded there in 1912 and became a centre for establishing further missions in the region...
  
  
• DR Congo at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  DR Congo at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  The Democratic Republic of the Congo, as Congo Kinshasa, competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first time that the nation was represented at the Olympic Games.-References:*...
  
  
• DR Congo at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• DR Congo at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• DR Congo National Road No. 2
• Dungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Dungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Dungu is a town in Haut-Uele District located at the confluence of the Dungu and Kibali Rivers where they join to form the Uele River, south of the Garamba National Park. Dungu's terrain is wooded savannah, and its climate is tropical....
  
  

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• Early Congolese history
  Early Congolese history
  Early Congo History covers most of the Congo River basin occupied today by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Angola's Cabinda province and northern Angola...
  
  
• East African mountains
  East African mountains
  The East African mountains are a mountain region in East Africa, within Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.-Location and description:...
  
  
• East Sudanian savanna
  East Sudanian savanna
  The East Sudanian Savanna is a hot, dry, tropical savanna ecoregion of central Africa.-Location and description:This is the eastern half of the broad savanna belt which runs east and west across Africa, this section lying east of the Cameroon Highlands...
  
  
• Eastern Rift Valley
• Ebola River
  Ebola River
  The Ebola River in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo River.Ebola virus and the taxonomic ranks associated with it and its relatives are named...
  
  
• Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth, its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US$ 24 trillion, yet the economy of the DRC has declined drastically...
  
  
• Education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Primary education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is free and compulsory .In 2000, 65 percent of children ages 10 to 14 years were attending school...
  
  
• Efé
  Efé
  The Efé are a group of part-time hunter-gatherer people living in the Ituri Rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the depths of the forest they do not wear much clothing, using only leaf huts as shelter for their bodies in the intense heat. The Efé are Pygmies, and one of the shortest...
  
  
• Eglise de Jésus-Christ
  Eglise de Jésus-Christ
  The Eglise de Jésus-Christ is an independent Christian church that was established by Pastor Banyanga and a fellow co-worker in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since 2002, the church had a membership of 1800 with 11 churches which are mostly situated in remote and inaccessible mountain...
  
  
• Eglise du Christ au Congo
  Eglise du Christ au Congo
  The Church of Christ in Congo or CCC , is a union of 62 Protestant denominations, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Ekosso
  Ekosso
  Ekosso is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is located at .Ekosso is also a name of Bantu origin....
  
  
• Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Multi-party elections in the DR Congo were held in July 2006, the first multi-party elections in the country since 1960.The 1960 elections, held in the wake of independence, saw Patrice Lumumba become prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu president. In 1965 Mobutu Sese Seko seized power and declared...
  
  
• Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Ottawa
  Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Ottawa
  The Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Ottawa is the Democratic Republic of the Congo's embassy in Canada. It is located at 18 Range Road in Ottawa, the Canadian capital. Louise Nzanga Ramazani serves as Minister-Counsellor and Chargé d'Affaires .-External links:, Department of Foreign...
  
  
• Emela-ntouka
  Emela-ntouka
  The Emela-ntouka is an African legendary creature in the mythology of the Pygmy tribes, and a cryptid purported to live in Central Africa. Its name means "killer of the elephants" in the Lingala language...
  
  
• Episcopal Baptist
  Episcopal Baptist
  Although most Baptist groups are congregationalist in polity, some have different ecclesiastical organization and adopt an Episcopal polity governance...
  
  
• Équateur
  Équateur
  Équateur is one of the ten provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is in the north of the country, and bordered the Republic of the Congo to the west, the Central African Republic to the north, to the east the Orientale province, and to the south the Kasai-Oriental, Kasai-Occidental, and...
  
  
• Équateur Province
  Équateur Province
  Équateur is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Eric Lenge
  Eric Lenge
  Eric Lenge in the Democratic Republic of the Congo led a failed coup during June 2004 against the Government of Joseph Kabila. He had reached the rank of Major in the Special Presidential Security Group, the branch of the Congolese military in charge of Presidential security.The coup began with a...
  
  

F

• FC Saint Eloi Lupopo
  FC Saint Eloi Lupopo
  FC Saint Eloi Lupopo is a Congolese football club based in Lubumbashi. Their home games are played at Stade de la Victoire.-Achievements:*Linafoot: 6*Coupe du Congo: 1*Katanga Provincial League : 2...
  
  
• Federalist Christian Democracy-Convention of Federalists for Christian Democracy
  Federalist Christian Democracy-Convention of Federalists for Christian Democracy
  The Federalist Christian Democracy-Convention of Federalists for Christian Democracy is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
  
  
• Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association
  Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association
  The Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association is the governing body of football in Congo DR. It was founded in 1919 and affiliated to the FIFA in 1962 and CAF in 1963. It organizes the national football league Linafoot and the national team....
  
  
• Fédération des Scouts de la République démocratique du Congo
  Fédération des Scouts de la République démocratique du Congo
  The Fédération des Scouts de la République démocratique du Congo , the national federation of eleven Scouting organizations of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was founded in 1924, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement first in 1963 and again in 1981...
  
  
• Fimi River
  Fimi River
  The Fimi River is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It flows from Lake Mai-Ndombe to the Kasai River, which in turn empties into the Congo. One of the Fimi's tributaries is the Lukenie River, which is navigable by barges as far as Kole....
  
  
• First Congo War
  First Congo War
  The First Congo War was a revolution in Zaire that replaced President Mobutu Sésé Seko, a decades-long dictator, with rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Destabilization in eastern Zaire that resulted from the Rwandan genocide was the final factor that caused numerous internal and external actors...
  
  
• Fizi
  Fizi
  Fizi is a territory and town in the province of Sud-Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located in the south of the province, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. The region has had a long history of independence from Kinshasa. It was the location of the maquis set up by Laurent-Désiré...
  
  
• Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was adopted on 20 February 2006. A new constitution, ratified in December 2005 and which came into effect in February 2006, promulgated a return to a flag similar to that flown between 1963 and 1971, with a change from a more royal blue to sky blue,...
  
  
• Flight Express
• Fondation chirezi
  Fondation Chirezi
  is a local non-governmental organisation established in the African Great Lakes Region by Floribert Kazingufu Kasirusiru . The core objective of FOCHI is to build a campaign for a non-killing society in the Great Lakes Region - eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which has...
  
  
• Force Publique
  Force Publique
  The Force Publique , French for "Public Force", was both a gendarmerie and a military force in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1885, , through the period of direct Belgian colonial rule...
  
  
• Forces for Renewal
  Forces for Renewal
  The Forces for Renewal is a political party in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The party originated as a breakaway faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy and was previously known as the RCD-Kisangani-Movement for Liberation....
  
  
• Foreign policy of Mobutu Sese Seko
  Foreign policy of Mobutu Sese Seko
  Mobutu Sese Seko's foreign policy emphasized his alliance with the United States and the Western world while ostensibly maintaining a non-aligned position in international affairs. Mobutu ruled Zaire as President for 32 years, from 1965 to 1997.-United States:...
  
  
• Foreign relations of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Foreign relations of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Its location in the center of Africa has made the Democratic Republic of the Congo a key player in the region since independence. Because of its size, mineral wealth, and strategic location, Zaire was able to capitalize on Cold War tensions to garner support from the West...
  
  
• French Congo
  French Congo
  The French Congo was a French colony which at one time comprised the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African Republic...
  
  
• French language
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  
• FROLINAT
  FROLINAT
  -Origins:The organization was born as the result of a political union between the leftist Chadian National Union , led by Ibrahim Abatcha, and the General Union of the Children of Chad which was led by Ahmed Hassan Musa. Musa was close to the Muslim Brotherhood and was an Islamist...
  
  
• Fwa River
  Fwa River
  The Fwa is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in west Africa, flowing through Kasai-Oriental province. The river is a tributary of the Lubu River, which is a tributary to the Sankuru River, in the southeastern Congo River drainage basin....
  
  

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• Gabon
  Gabon
  Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...
  
  
• Garamba National Park
  Garamba National Park
  Garamba National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa, was established in 1938. One of Africa's oldest National parks, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980. Garamba is the home to the world's last known wild population of Northern White Rhinoceros...
  
  
• Garanganze people
  Garanganze people
  The Garanganze or Yeke people of Katanga in DR Congo established the Yeke Kingdom under the warrior-king Msiri who dominated the southern part of Central Africa from 1850 to 1891 and controlled the trade route between Angola and Zanzibar from his capital at Bunkeya.Msiri and his people were...
  
  
• Gbadolite
  Gbadolite
  Gbadolite or Gbado-Lite is the capital of the Nord-Ubangi District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town is located south of the Ubangi River at the border to the Central African Republic and northeast of the national capital Kinshasa...
  
  
• Gbadolite Agreement
  Gbadolite Agreement
  The Gbadolite Agreement, signed on December 31, 2002 in Gbadolite, Democratic Republic of the Congo, attempted unsuccessfully to end the Second Congo War...
  
  
• Gbadolite Airport
  Gbadolite Airport
  Gbadolite Airport is an airport serving Gbadolite, the capital of the Nord-Ubangi District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The airport is located at the village of Moanda, southwest of Gbadolite.-Facilities:...
  
  
• Gécamines
  Gécamines
  Gécamines, or La Générale des Carrières et des Mines, is a state-owned mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo . Its principal products are copper , cobalt and zinc...
  
  
• Gemena
  Gemena
  Gemena is a town and capital of the Sud-Ubangi District of Equateur Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The town has a large airport.Mobutu Sese Seko's mother, Mama Yemo, died in Gemena in 1971; a vast mausoleum was built in her memory....
  
  
• Gemena Airport
  Gemena Airport
  Gemena Airport is an airport serving Gemena, the capital of the Sud-Ubangi District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Facilities:The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with an asphalt surface measuring .-Airlines and destinations:*...
  
  
• General Confederation of Labour of the Congo
• Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Democratic Republic of the Congo includes the greater part of the Congo River Basin, which covers an area of almost . The country's only outlet to the Atlantic Ocean is a narrow strip of land on the north bank of the Congo River....
  
  
• Gisenyi
  Gisenyi
  Gisenyi is a city in Rubavu district in the Western Province of Rwanda. Gisenyi is contiguous with Goma, the city across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The population of the city is about 106 000 .-Description:...
  
  
• Goma
  Goma
  Goma is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, next to the Rwandan city of Gisenyi. The lake and the two cities are in the western branch of the Great Rift Valley, and Goma lies only 13 to 18 km due south of the crater of the active...
  
  
• Goma International Airport
  Goma International Airport
  Goma International Airport is an airport serving Goma, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Airlines and destinations:-2002 Nyiragongo eruption:...
  
  
• Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second institution in the central executive branch of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the first institution being the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who has the title of head of state.- Description :Under the...
  
  
• Grand Kalle
  Grand Kalle
  Joseph Kabasele Tshamala , popularly known as Le Grand Kalle, was a Congolese singer and bandleader, considered the father of modern Congolese music...
  
  
• Grand Kalle et l'African Jazz
• Grand Kalle et l'African Jazz
• Great Lakes refugee crisis
  Great Lakes refugee crisis
  The Great Lakes refugee crisis is the common name for the situation beginning with the exodus in April 1994 of over two million Rwandans to neighboring countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide...
  
  
• Great Rift Valley
  Great Rift Valley
  The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench, approximately in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa...
  
  

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• Haut-Katanga Province
  Haut-Katanga Province
  Haut-Katanga is a new province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be established when the country's new constitution is implemented by dividing Katanga Province into four parts....
  
  
• Haut-Lomami Province
  Haut-Lomami Province
  Haut-Lomani is a new province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be established when the country's new constitution is implemented by dividing Katanga Province into four parts....
  
  
• Haut-Uele Province
  Haut-Uele Province
  Haut-Uele is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution . It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months . As of October 2010, this had not taken place...
  
  
• Heads of state of the Congo Free State
  Heads of state of the Congo Free State
  -List of Heads of State of the Congo Free State:For continuation, see: Colonial heads of Congo-See also:*Congo, Democratic Republic of the**Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo**Heads of Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  This is the list of the Heads of State of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since independence in 1960. The current head of state is President Joseph Kabila, since 26 January 2001.-Heads of State:-Affiliations:...
  
  
• Hema people
  Hema people
  The Hema, or Hima, are an ethnic group with about 160,000 members located in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular the Ituri region and Orientale province, as well as parts of Uganda and Rwanda...
  
  
• Hewa Bora Airways
  Hewa Bora Airways
  Hewa Bora Airways was an airline based in Barumbu, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was one of Congo's largest airlines and operates regional and domestic services. Its main base was N'djili Airport. "Hewa Bora" is Swahili for "Fresh Air". The company was on the European Commission's...
  
  
• History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  -Early Congolese history:The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 10,000 years ago and settled in the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. by Bantus from present-day Nigeria. During its history the area has also been known as Congo, Congo Free State, Belgian Congo...
  
  
• House of Kinlaza
• Hunde
  Hunde
  The Hunde are an ethnolinguistic group of about 200,000 people located in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Hunde live in the province of Nord-Kivu and the regions of Masisi and Rutshuru. The language of the Hunde is Kihunde, and alternate names are Kobi and Rukobi...
  
  
• Hutu
  Hutu
  The Hutu , or Abahutu, are a Central African people, living mainly in Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern DR Congo.-Population statistics:The Hutu are the largest of the three peoples in Burundi and Rwanda; according to the United States Central Intelligence Agency, 84% of Rwandans and 85% of Burundians...
  
  
• HVDC Western Power Corridor
  HVDC Western Power Corridor
  The Western Power Corridor is a project to construct and supply energy from two hydroelectric power plants to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Originally, the hydropower was to be supplied form the Democratic Republic of the Congo's INGA III project...
  
  

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• Identity Pieces
  Identity Pieces
  Identity Pieces is a 1998 Belgian/French/Congolese comedy film written and directed by Mweze Ngangura. It premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  
• Idjwi
  Idjwi
  Idjwi or Ijwi is an island in Lake Kivu, belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At 70 km in length and with an area of 340 km², it is the second largest inland island in Africa, and the tenth largest in the world...
  
  
• Ikela
  Ikela
  Ikela is a market town in Tshuapa District in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on the Tshuapa River east of Boende. Founded by Belgium in the early twentieth century as a trading post, it became an important local centre....
  
  
• Ilebo
  Ilebo
  Ilebo, formerly known as Port-Francqui, is a town in Kasaï District in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying at the highest navigable point of the Kasaï River. As such, it is an important transport hub for ferries to Kinshasa and trains to Lubumbashi....
  
  
• Ilebo Airport
  Ilebo Airport
  Ilebo Airport is an airport serving Ilebo, Democratic Republic of Congo.-Facilities:The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level and has a runway which is long....
  
  
• Independent Electoral Commission (DRC)
  Independent Electoral Commission (DRC)
  The Independent Electoral Commission runs elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Inga Dam
  Inga Dam
  The Inga Dams, located in western Democratic Republic of the Congo 140 miles southwest of Kinshasa, are hydroelectric dams on the largest waterfalls in the world, Inga Falls. Here the Congo River drops 96 metres and has an average flow of 42,476 m³/s....
  
  
• Inga Falls
  Inga Falls
  Inga Falls is a rapids 40 km from Matadi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the Congo River drops 96 m over the course of 15 km ....
  
  
• Inga-Shaba
  Inga-Shaba
  The Inga–Shaba EHVDC Intertie is a high-voltage direct current overhead electric power transmission line in the Democratic Republic of Congo, linking the Inga hydroelectric complex at the mouth of the Congo River to mineral fields in Shaba...
  
  
• Inkisi River
  Inkisi River
  The Inkisi River is a large south bank tributary of the Congo River, located in Western Central Africa.-See also:...
  
  
• Inongo Airport
  Inongo Airport
  Inongo Airport is an airport serving Inongo, Democratic Republic of Congo.-Facilities:The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level and has one runway which is long....
  
  
• Isiro
  Isiro
  Isiro is the capital of Haut-Uele District in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies between the equatorial forest and the savannah and its main resource is coffee. Isiro's population is estimated at approximately 150,000...
  
  
• Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been present within the area since the 18th century, when Arab traders from East Africa pushed into the interior for ivory and slave trading purposes. Today, Muslims constitute approximately 1.5% of the Congolese population.According to the CIA...
  
  
• ISO 3166-2:CD
  ISO 3166-2:CD
  ISO 3166-2:CD is the entry for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for the...
  
  
• Ituri conflict
  Ituri Conflict
  The Ituri conflict is a conflict between the agriculturalist Lendu and pastoralist Hema ethnic groups in the Ituri region of the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo . While there have been many phases to the conflict, the most recent armed clashes ran from 1999 to 2003, with a low-level...
  
  
• Ituri Province
• Ituri Rainforest
  Ituri Rainforest
  The Ituri Rainforest is a rainforest located in the Ituri region of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo formerly called Zaire. The forest's name derives from the nearby Ituri River which flows through the rainforest, connecting firstly to the Aruwimi River and finally into the Congo.-...
  
  

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• Kahuzi-Biéga National Park
  Kahuzi-Biéga National Park
  Kahuzi-Biéga National Park is in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 50 km west of the town of Bukavu in the Kivu Region, near to the western side of Lake Kivu and the Rwandan border....
  
  
• Kakwa people
• Kalamu (Kinshasa)
  Kalamu (Kinshasa)
  Kalamu is a municipality in the Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It forms the part of the city to the south of major buildings such as the Palais du Peuple , the Stade des Martyrs and Kinshasa's N'djili Airport.The town contains the popular...
  
  
• Kalemie Airport
  Kalemie Airport
  Kalemie Airport is an airport in Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo....
  
  
• Kaliko
  Kaliko
  Keliko or Kaliko is an ethnic group from Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Sudan. Most members of this ethnic group are Muslims. They speak the Keliko language, which is a Nilo-Saharan language. The population of this group likely exceeds 10,000....
  
  
• Kama Sywor Kamanda
  Kama Sywor Kamanda
  Kama Sywor Kamanda is an award-winning African writer and poet.-Biography:Kama Sywor Kamanda was born on November 11, 1952, in Luebo, Democratic Republic of Congo, to a family of Bantu-Egyptian origin, father Malaba Kamenga and mother Kony Ngalula....
  
  
• Kamina
  Kamina
  Kamina is a city in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located at around . It is the provincial capital.- Transport :...
  
  
• Kananga
  Kananga
  Kananga, formerly known as Luluabourg or Luluaburg, is the capital of Lulua District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has a population of 1,130,100 ....
  
  
• Kananga Airport
  Kananga Airport
  Kananga Airport is an airport in Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Airlines and destinations:...
  
  
• Kanda Bongo Man
  Kanda Bongo Man
  Kanda Bongo Man, born 1955 in Inongo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a prominent soukous musician.Kanda Bongo Man become the singer for Orchestra Belle Mambo in 1973, developing a sound influenced by Tabu Ley...
  
  
• Kano Accord
  Kano Accord
  The Kano Accord was preceded by the collapse of central authority in Chad in 1979, when the Prime Minister Hissène Habré had unleashed on February 12 his militias against the capital N'Djamena and the president Félix Malloum...
  
  
• Kaonde language
  Kaonde language
  Kaonde, also known as Chikaonde and Kawonde, is a Bantu language that is spoken primarily in Zambia but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kaonde and its dialects are spoken and understood by perhaps 350,000 people or more. It is estimated that approximately 3% of Zambians are native...
  
  
• Kasai Province
  Kasai Province
  Kasai is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Kasai region
  Kasai region
  The Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is divided administratively into Kasai-Occidental and Kasai-Oriental. It shares its name with the Kasai River....
  
  
• Kasai River
  Kasai River
  The Kasai River is a tributary of the Congo River, located in central Africa. The river begins in Angola and serves as the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo , then flows into the DRC, where it joins the Congo northeast of Kinshasa. The Kasai's tributaries include the...
  
  
• Kasai-Occidental
  Kasai-Occidental
  Kasai-Occidental is one of the ten provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It borders the provinces of Bandundu to the west, Équateur to the north, Kasai-Oriental to the east, and Katanga to the southeast. To the south it borders the country of Angola...
  
  
• Kasai-Oriental
  Kasai-Oriental
  Kasai-Oriental is one of the ten provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It borders the provinces of Kasai-Occidental to the west, Équateur to the northwest, Orientale to the northeast, Maniema to the east, and Katanga to the south. Kasai-Oriental is one of the richest diamond producing...
  
  
• Kasai-oriental Province
  Kasai-oriental Province
  Kasai-Oriental is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226. As of October 2010, this had not taken place...
  
  
• Kasa-Vubu (commune)
  Kasa-Vubu (commune)
  Kasa-Vubu is a municipality in the Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Along with Kalamu, it forms the historical African heart of Kinshasa...
  
  
• Kasumbalesa
  Kasumbalesa
  Kasumbalesa or sometimes Kasile is a border town in the province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo about 96 km south-south-west of Lubumbashi. It is located at the border with Zambia, and is connected by road and railway with Lubumbashi....
  
  
• Katanga Plateau
  Katanga Plateau
  The Katanga, or Shaba, Plateau is a farming and ranching region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Located in the southwestern Katanga Province, it reaches heights of 3,000 to 6,000 feet. Also, it is near the city of Songye....
  
  
• Katanga Province
  Katanga Province
  Katanga Province is one of the provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Between 1971 and 1997, its official name was Shaba Province. Under the new constitution, the province was to be replaced by four smaller provinces by February 2009; this did not actually take place.Katanga's regional...
  
  
• Katangan franc
  Katangan franc
  The franc was the currency of Katanga between 1960 and 1963 during the Congolese province's brief independence. It replaced the Congolese franc at par and was consequently initially equal to the Belgian franc. This established an exchange rate of 50 francs = 1 U.S. dollar. Just before Katanga was...
  
  
• Kengo Wa Dondo
  Kengo Wa Dondo
  Léon Kengo Wa Dondo served as the "first state commissioner" several times under Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaïre. He was one of the most powerful figures in the regime and was a strong advocate of economic globalization and free-market economics...
  
  
• Khonvoum
  Khonvoum
  Khonvoum is the supreme god and creator of the Bambuti Pygmy people in central Africa. He is the 'great hunter', god of the hunt, and carries a bow made of two snake which appears to mortals as a rainbow. He rules the heavens and when the sun sets, he gathers pieces of the stars and throws it at...
  
  
• Kikwit
  Kikwit
  Kikwit is the largest city of Kwilu District, lying on the Kwilu River in the southwestern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kikwit is also known in the region under the nickname "The Mother". The population is approximately 294,210...
  
  
• Kikwit Airport
  Kikwit Airport
  Kikwit Airport is an airport serving Kikwit, the capital city of the Kwilu District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Facilities:The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 06/24 with an asphalt surface measuring ....
  
  
• Kiliba
  Kiliba
  Kiliba is a town on the Congolese side of a border crossing between Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is about 17 km from the Burundi capital Bujumbura and 25 km from Uvira in South Kivu Province of the DRC....
  
  
• Kimbanseke
  Kimbanseke
  Kimbanseke is a municipality in the Tshangu district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is situated in the southeast of Kinshasa. Settlement in this hilled area is relatively new.- External links :*...
  
  
• Kindu
  Kindu
  Kindu is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the capital of Maniema province. It has a population of about 200,000 and is situated on the Congo River at an altitude of about 500 metres, and is about 400 km west of Bukavu....
  
  
• Kindu Airport
  Kindu Airport
  Kindu Airport is an airport in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
  
  
• King Leopold's Ghost
  King Leopold's Ghost
  King Leopold's Ghost is a best-selling popular history book by Adam Hochschild that explores the exploitation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908....
  
  
• Kingdom of Loango
  Kingdom of Loango
  The Kingdom of Loango, also known as the Kingdom of Lwããgu, was a pre-colonial African state from approximately the 15th to the 19th century in what is now the Republic of Congo. At its height in the seventeenth century the country stretched from Cape St Catherine in the north to almost the mouth...
  
  
• Kinshasa
  Kinshasa
  Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located on the Congo River....
  
  
• Kinshasa Airways
  Kinshasa Airways
  Kinshasa Airways is a cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It was established in 2002 and operates cargo services from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Middle East....
  
  
• Kinshasa Highway
  Kinshasa Highway
  The Kinshasa Highway is an informal name for route across the Democratic Republic of the Congo into Uganda and beyond, consisting of paved highways in some places and seasonally impassable tracks in others. The name has gained currency for the role which long-distance truck drivers played in the...
  
  
• Kinyarwanda
• Kipushi
  Kipushi
  Kipushi is a town in Haut-Katanga District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies 35 km southwest of the city of Lubumbashi, very close to the border with Zambia, at an altitude of 1329 m . The main economic activity of the town is mining...
  
  
• Kiri Airport
  Kiri Airport
  Kiri Airport is an airport in Kiri, Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
  
  
• Kirundi
  Kirundi
  Kirundi, also known as Rundi, is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language spoken by some 8.7 million people in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa, as well as in Uganda. It is the official language of Burundi...
  
  
• Kisangani
  Kisangani
  Kisangani is the capital of Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the 3rd largest urbanized city in the country and the largest of the cities that lie in the tropical woodlands of the Congo....
  
  
• Kisantu
  Kisantu
  Kisantu, also known as Inkisi, is a town in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, lying south west of Kinshasa, on the Inkisi River. It is known for its large cathedral and for its botanical gardens, which include an arboretum of indigenous trees....
  
  
• Kisula Ngoy
  Kisula Ngoy
  Dr. Urbain Kisula Ngoy has served as governor of Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, since May 26, 2004.-External links:* World Investment News, October 12, 2005...
  
  
• Kitona
  Kitona
  Kitona is a town of about 4,000 persons in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located to the southwest of the country along the Atlantic Ocean, about 190 miles southwest of the capital city of Kinshasa. Following the Second World War, a Belgian military base,...
  
  
• Kituba language
• Kivu
  Kivu
  Kivu was the name for a large "Region" in the Democratic Republic of Congo under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko that bordered Lake Kivu. It included three "Sub-Regions" : Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu and Maniema, corresponding to the three current provinces created in 1986...
  
  
• Kivu Air
  Kivu Air
  Kivu Air is an airline based in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It operates charter and cargo services in the area. Its main bases are Goma International Airport and Bukavu Airport....
  
  
• Kivu conflict
  Kivu conflict
  The Kivu conflict is an armed conflict between the military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Hutu Power group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda . The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo also became involved in the conflict...
  
  
• Kole Sur Lukenie Airport
  Kole Sur Lukenie Airport
  Kole Sur Lukenie Airport is an airport in Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is a dirt airstrip with about 1200 to 1400 m of usable length. It is located at .-Charter services:...
  
  
• Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Kole is a rather remote town in central Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Lukenie River. It is the administrative center of the Kole Territory, which in turn is part of the Sankuru District of the Kasai-Oriental Province....
  
  
• Kolwezi
  Kolwezi
  Kolwezi is a city in Katanga Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Likasi. It is home to an airport and a railway to Lubumbashi. The population is approximately 418,000....
  
  
• Kolwezi Airport
  Kolwezi Airport
  Kolwezi Airport is an airport serving Kolwezi, the capital city of the Lualaba District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The airport is located about south of Kolwezi.-Facilities:...
  
  
• Kongo Central
  Kongo Central
  Kongo Central is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Kongo language
  Kongo language
  The Kongo language, or Kikongo, is the Bantu language spoken by the Bakongo and Bandundu people living in the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Angola. It is a tonal language and formed the base for Kituba, a Bantu creole and lingua franca...
  
  
• Kongo people
  Kongo people
  The Bakongo or the Kongo people , also sometimes referred to as Kongolese or Congolese, is a Bantu ethnic group which lives along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire to Luanda, Angola...
  
  
• Kongo University
  Kongo University
  Kongo University is a university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its name is abbreviated to UK, after its French name. The main offices of the university are located in Mbanza-Ngungu. UK currently operates two linked campuses, at Mbanza-Ngungu and at Kisantu...
  
  
• Konono N°1
  Konono N°1
  Konono Nº1 is a Grammy nominated musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They combine three electric likembé with voices, dancers, and percussion instruments that are made out of items salvaged from a junkyard...
  
  
• Kuba Kingdom
  Kuba Kingdom
  The Kuba Kingdom was a pre-colonial Central African state bordered by the Sankuru, Lulua, and Kasai rivers in the southeast of what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Kwango Province
  Kwango Province
  Kwango is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Kwango River
  Kwango River
  The Cuango or Kwango is a transboundary river of Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the largest left bank tributary of the Kasai River in the Congo River basin. It flows through Malanje town in Angola...
  
  
• Kwassa kwassa
  Kwassa kwassa
  Kwassa kwassa is a dance rhythm from the Democratic Republic of the Congo that started in the 1970s where the hips move back and forth while the hands move to follow the hips. It was very popular in Africa in the late 1980s. The words kwassa kwassa may have come from the French quoi ça?...
  
  
• Kwilu Province
  Kwilu Province
  Kwilu is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. These 25 provinces were to have been created from the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  

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• La Gombe (Kinshasa)
  La Gombe (Kinshasa)
  Gombe is a municipality in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is also known as La Gombe and was formerly known as Kalina...
  
  
• La Zaïroise
  La Zaïroise
  La Zaïroise by Joseph Lutumba and Simon-Pierre Boka Di Mpasi Londi was the national anthem of Zaïre from 1972 to 1997.-Original lyrics in French:...
  
  
• Lake Albert
• Lake Chamo
  Lake Chamo
  Lake Chamo is a lake in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region of southern Ethiopia. It is located in the Great Rift Valley at an elevation of 1,110 meters. It is just to the south of Lake Abaya and the city of Arba Minch, and east of the Guge Mountains.The lake's northern end...
  
  
• Lake Edward
  Lake Edward
  Lake Edward or Edward Nyanza is the smallest of the African Great Lakes. It is located in the western Great Rift Valley, on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, with its northern shore a few kilometres south of the Equator...
  
  
• Lake Kivu
  Lake Kivu
  Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, a part of the Great Rift Valley. Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika...
  
  
• Lake Mai-Ndombe
  Lake Mai-Ndombe
  Lake Mai-Ndombe is a large freshwater lake in Bandundu Province in western Democratic Republic of Congo, at . It drains to the south through the Fimi River into the Kwah and Congo Rivers. Known until 1972 as Lake Leopold ; Mai-Ndombe means “black water” in Lingala...
  
  
• Lake Mweru
  Lake Mweru
  Lake Mweru is a freshwater lake on the longest arm of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo. Located on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, it makes up 110 km of the total length of the Congo, lying between its Luapula River and Luvua River segments.Mweru...
  
  
• Lake Tanganyika
  Lake Tanganyika
  Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...
  
  
• Lake Tumba
  Lake Tumba
  Lake Tumba is a shallow lake in northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located at around and has an area of 500.00 km² and is from 2 to 6 m deep. It is the part of the Congo River basin. Lake Tumba hosts 114 species of fish...
  
  
• Lamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Lamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Lamba is a city in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has an estimated population of 9930....
  
  
• Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a multilingual country where an estimated total of 242 languages are spoken . The official language, inherited from the colonial period, is French...
  
  
• Law enforcement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Law enforcement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Law enforcement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has historically been focused on furthering the state's aims with no regard for human rights...
  
  
• Leki
  Leki
  Leki is the first female urban/R&B-pop star to rise out of Belgium. She is known for many hits including "Breakin' Out", "Spread my wings", "Over the Rainbow", and "Love me another day". She is also a TV presenter on VTM....
  
  
• Lendu
  Lendu
  The Lendu, or Balendru, are an ethno-linguistic agriculturalist group residing in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the area west and northwest of Lake Albert, in particular the Ituri region of Orientale province. Their language is one of the most populous of the Central Sudanic languages...
  
  
• Leopold II of Belgium
  Leopold II of Belgium
  Leopold II was the second king of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.Leopold is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free...
  
  
• Les Quatre Etoiles
  Les Quatre Etoiles
  Les Quatre Etoiles is the Soukous musical group consisting of the Congolese musicians, Bopol Mansiamina, Wuta Mayi, Syran Mbenza and Nyboma.Their album, Sangonini, was produced by the renowned African music producer Ibrahim Sylla. The song "Doly", from Sangoni, enjoyed worldwide popularity,...
  
  
• LGBT rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Gay rights)
• Libenge
  Libenge
  Libenge is a town in Sud-Ubangi Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
  
  
• Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises
  Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises
  Lignes Aériennes Congolaises was the flag carrier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1997, when it was established to succeed the folded Air Zaire, and 2008, when it was disestablished....
  
  
• Likasi
  Likasi
  Likasi, formerly known as Jadotville or Jadotstad, is a city in Haut-Katanga Province, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.-Demographics:Likasi has a population of around 367,000...
  
  
• Linafoot
  Linafoot
  The Linafoot is the top division of the Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association, the governing body of football in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Lingala language
  Lingala language
  Lingala, or Ngala, is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a large part of the Republic of the Congo , as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic. It has over 10 million speakers...
  
  
• Lisala
  Lisala
  Lisala is the capital of Mongala District, in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located at around . The Congo River flows through the city. It is best known as the birthplace of Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire from 1965 to 1997....
  
  
• List of African writers (by country)#Congo
• List of airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of amphibians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of birds of the Democratic Republic of Congo
• List of cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of Congolese films
• List of Governors of Kinshasa
• List of governors of the Banque Centrale du Congo
• List of mammals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of people on stamps of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of political parties of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of Provincial Governors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of television stations in Kinshasa
• List of volcanoes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Livingstone Falls
  Livingstone Falls
  Livingstone Falls — named for the explorer David Livingstone — are a succession of enormous rapids on the lower course of the Congo River in west equatorial Africa, downstream from Malebo Pool in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Description:Livingstone Falls consist of a series of rapids...
  
  
• Lodja
  Lodja
  Lodja is a town in central Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the administrative center of the Sankuru District. It is located at around .Lodja is home to the Lodja Airport....
  
  
• Lodja Airport
  Lodja Airport
  Lodja Airport is an airport in Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo .-References:*...
  
  
• Lofoi Falls
  Lofoi Falls
  The Lofoi Falls is a waterfall in Kundelungu National Park, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo and is one of the largest waterfalls in Central Africa...
  
  
• Logo people
  Logo people
  Logo is an ethnic group of Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Logo language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by more than 200,000 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo....
  
  
• Lol Mohamed Shawa
  Lol Mohamed Shawa
  Lol Mahamat Choua is a Chadian politician who served as his country's Head of State for four months in 1979. He is the President of the Rally for Democracy and Progress political party....
  
  
• Lomami Province
  Lomami Province
  Lomami is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226. As of October 2010, this had not taken place...
  
  
• Lomami River
  Lomami River
  The Lomami River is a major tributary of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The river is approximately long. It flows north, west of and parallel to the upper Congo....
  
  
• Loningisa
  Loningisa
  Loningisa was a studio and record label based in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Loningisa was made famous by the emergence the African rumba band OK Jazz, whose music became popular, and a big influence on African and Congolese popular music.OK Jazz included Francois Luambo...
  
  
• Lopango yaba Nka
• Lualaba Province
  Lualaba Province
  Lualaba is a new province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be established when the country's new constitution is implemented by dividing Katanga Province into four parts....
  
  
• Lualaba River
  Lualaba River
  The Lualaba River is the greatest headstream of the Congo River by volume of water. However, by length the Chambeshi River is the farthest headstream. The Lualaba is 1800 km long, running from near Musofi in the vicinity of Lubumbashi in Katanga Province. The whole of its length lies within the...
  
  
• Luapula River
  Luapula River
  The Luapula River is a section of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo. It is a transnational river forming for nearly all its length part of the border between Zambia and the DR Congo...
  
  
• Luba people
  Luba people
  The Luba are one of the Bantu peoples of Central Africa. They are indigenous to the Katanga, Kasai, and Maniema regions which were historic provinces of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Lubaland
  Lubaland
  Lubaland refers to the Savanah grassland south of the Congo River where the Luba people live; now the southeastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Around 1500 CE Lubas united to form a kingdom which was ultimately taken over in 1885 by Leopold II, King of Belgium, who made it part...
  
  
• Lubondai
  Lubondai
  A small rural location in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lubondai is characterized by its Presbyterian and Methodist missions that have built schools, hospitals and stations....
  
  
• Lubu River
  Lubu River
  The Lubu River is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in west Africa, flowing through Kasai-Oriental province. The river is a tributary of the Fwa River. Tributaries of the Lubu include the Sankuru River, which ispart of the southeastern Congo River drainage basin....
  
  
• Lubumbashi
  Lubumbashi
  Lubumbashi is the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, second only to the nation's capital Kinshasa, and the hub of the southeastern part of the country. The copper-mining city serves as the capital of the relatively prosperous Katanga Province, lying near the Zambian border...
  
  
• Lubumbashi International Airport
  Lubumbashi International Airport
  Lubumbashi International Airport is an airport in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo .-Airlines and destinations:-History:Lubumbashi International Airport was founded in colonial times as the Elisabethville Airport....
  
  
• Lugbara language
  Lugbara language
  Lugbara is the language of the Lugbara people. It is spoken in the West Nile region in northwestern Uganda, as well as the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Orientale Province. Lugbara was first written by Christian missionaries in 1918, based on the Ayivu dialect...
  
  
• Lugbara mythology
  Lugbara mythology
  The Lugbara live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. In Lugbara mythology, Adroa appeared in both good and evil aspects; he was the creator god and appeared on Earth as a human who was near death. He was depicted as a very tall white man with only one half of a body, missing one...
  
  
• Lukaya River
  Lukaya River
  The Lukaya is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its source is located in the Crystal Mountains , from which it runs eastward through Bas-Congo, then runs into the banks of the Ndjili River. The rail line from Matadi to Kinshasa runs along the river valley for a time, passing to the...
  
  
• Lulonga River
  Lulonga River
  The Lulonga is a river in the Equateur province of Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is about 200 km long from its beginning at the town of Basankusu. There the Lopori and the Maringa join to form the Lulonga. The Lulonga river flows into the Congo River at the town Lulonga....
  
  
• Lulua Province
  Lulua Province
  Lulua is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Lunda Empire
• Lunda language
  Lunda language
  Lunda, also known as Chilunda, is a Bantu language spoken in Zambia, Angola and, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lunda and its dialects are spoken and understood by perhaps 2.6% of Zambians , and the language is used mainly in the northern part of that...
  
  
• Lunda people
• Luvua River
  Luvua River
  The Luvua River is a river in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It flows from the northern end of Lake Mweru on the Zambia-Congo border in a northwesterly direction for to its confluence with the Lualaba River opposite the town of Ankoro...
  
  

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• Madiaba
  Madiaba
  Madiaba was a dance craze of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that occurred in the 1980s....
  
  
• Maiko National Park
  Maiko National Park
  Maiko National Park is a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies in one of the most remote forest areas of the country and covers . The park is divided into three sectors, straddling the states of Nord Kivu, Province Orientale and Maniema...
  
  
• Mai-Mai
  Mai-Mai
  The term Mai-Mai or Mayi-Mayi refers to any kind of community-based militia group active in the Second Congo War and its aftermath in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , formed to defend their local territory against other armed groups...
  
  
• Mai-Ndombe Province
  Mai-Ndombe Province
  Mai-Ndombe is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Malift Air
  Malift Air
  Malift Air is an airline based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It operates domestic passenger and cargo services. Its main base is N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa.The airline is on the List of air carriers banned in the European Union....
  
  
• Malloum's military government
  Malloum's military government
  The 1975 coup d'état in Chad that terminated Tombalbaye's government received an enthusiastic response in the capital N'Djamena. Félix Malloum emerged as the chairman of the new Supreme Military Council and the first days of the new regime were celebrated as many political prisoners were released...
  
  
• Manganese
  Manganese
  Manganese is a chemical element, designated by the symbol Mn. It has the atomic number 25. It is found as a free element in nature , and in many minerals...
  
  
• Mangbetu people
• Maniema
  Maniema
  Maniema is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Kindu.Following the 2005 Constitution , 25 new provinces were to be created from the 10 current provinces within 36 months . As of October 2010, this had not taken place...
  
  
• Maniema Province
• Masina (Kinshasa)
  Masina (Kinshasa)
  Masina is a municipality in the Tshangu district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is bordered by the Pool Malebo in the north and Boulevard Lumbumba to the south...
  
  
• Matadi
  Matadi
  Matadi is the chief sea port of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of the Bas-Congo province. It has a population of 245,862 . Matadi is situated on the left bank of the Congo River from the mouth and below the last navigable point before rapids make the river impassable for a...
  
  
• Matadi Bridge
  Matadi Bridge
  The Matadi Bridge, also known as the OEBK Bridge, is a suspension bridge in the port of Matadi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Completed in 1983, it has a main span of 520 m, crossing the Congo River, carrying the main highway between the capital Kinshasa and the Atlantic coast...
  
  
• Matadi-Kinshasa Railway
  Matadi-Kinshasa Railway
  The Matadi-Kinshasa Railway is a railway line in Bas-Congo Province between the port of Matadi and Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo.The Matadi-Kinshasa Railway was built from 1890 to 1898...
  
  
• Matari Airport
  Matari Airport
  Matari Airport is an airport in Isiro, Democratic Republic of the Congo....
  
  
• Mbandaka
  Mbandaka
  Mbandaka, formerly known as Coquilhatville or Coquilhatstad , is a city on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying near the confluence of the Congo and Ruki Rivers. The capital of the Equateur District, it is home to an airport and is linked by ferry to Kinshasa and Boende...
  
  
• Mbandaka Airport
  Mbandaka Airport
  Mbandaka Airport is an airport serving Mbandaka, the capital city of the Equateur District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.- Facilities :...
  
  
• Mbanza-Ngungu
  Mbanza-Ngungu
  Mbanza-Ngungu, formerly known as Thysville or Thysstad, named after Albert Thys, is a city in Bas-Congo Province in the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on a short branch off the Matadi-Kinshasa Railway...
  
  
• Mbo language (Congo)
  Mbo language (Congo)
  The Mbo language is spoken by the Mbo people of Ituri Province, Mambasa Territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of 1994 there were about 11,000 speakers. It is lexically similar to the Ndaka and Budu, Vanuma and Nyali languages....
  
  
• Mbomou River
  Mbomou River
  The Mbomou River or Bomu forms part of the boundary between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
  
  
• Mbuji Mayi Airport
  Mbuji Mayi Airport
  Mbuji Mayi Airport is an airport serving Mbuji Mayi , the capital of the Kasai-Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Facilities:...
  
  
• Mbuji-Mayi
  Mbuji-Mayi
  Mbuji-Mayi serves as the capital of Kasai-Oriental Province in the south-central Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the third largest city in the country, following the capital Kinshasa and second largest city Lubumbashi but ahead of Kisangani and Kananga. The city is the DRC's third-largest,...
  
  
• MIBA Aviation
  MIBA Aviation
  MIBA Aviation is a cargo airline based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established and started operations in 1994 and is an ad-hoc and charter cargo operator .- Fleet :The MIBA Aviation fleet includes the following aircraft :...
  
  
• Middle Congo
• Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Missa Luba
  Missa Luba
  The Missa Luba is a version of the Latin Mass based on traditional Congolese songs. It was arranged by Father Guido Haazen, a Franciscan Friar from Belgium, and originally performed and recorded in 1958 by "Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin", a choir of Congolese children from...
  
  
• Mitumba Mountains
  Mitumba Mountains
  The Mitumba Mountain range stretches along the Western Rift Valley in Burundi and Eastern Congo , west of lake Tanganyika. The two main peaks, Mount Kahuzi and Mount Biéga are extinct volcanoes.-References:...
  
  
• Moba port
• Mobaye-Mbongo
• Mobayi-Mbongo
  Mobayi-Mbongo
  Mobayi-Mbongo, formerly known as Banzyville or Banzystad, is a town in Nord-Ubangi District, in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Ubangi River. It lies opposite the Central African town of Mobaye. Mobayi-Mbongo has about 20,000 inhabitants....
  
  
• Mobutism
  Mobutism
  Mobutism was an official party ideology of the Popular Movement of the Revolution as well as the official state ideology in Zaire during the latter half of the 20th century...
  
  
• Mobutu Sese Seko
  Mobutu Sese Seko
  Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga , commonly known as Mobutu or Mobutu Sese Seko , born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, was the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1965 to 1997...
  
  
• Moise Tshombe
  Moise Tshombe
  Moïse Kapenda Tshombe was a Congolese politician.- Biography :He was the son of a successful Congolese businessman and was born in Musumba, Congo. He received his education from an American missionary school and later trained as an accountant...
  
  
• Mokele-mbembe
  Mokèlé-mbèmbé
  Mokèlé-mbèmbé, meaning "one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language, is the name given to a large water-dwelling cryptid found in legends and folklore of the Congo River basin. It is sometimes described as a living creature and sometimes as a spirit. It could be considered loosely...
  
  
• Mongala Province
  Mongala Province
  Mongala is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Mono language (Congo)
  Mono language (Congo)
  Mono is a language spoken by about 65,000 people in the northwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the Banda languages, a subbranch of the Ubangian branch of the Niger–Congo languages...
  
  
• Mont Fleury, Kinshasa
  Mont Fleury, Kinshasa
  The quartier Mont Fleury is an exclusive gated community located in the Ngaliema district of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Mont Ngafula
  Mont Ngafula
  Mont Ngafula is a municipality in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is in the hilly southern area of Kinshasa and is intersected by the Lukaya River valley in its southern portion....
  
  
• Mount Karisimbi
  Mount Karisimbi
  Mount Karisimbi is an inactive volcano in the Virunga Mountains on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. At , Karisimbi is the highest of the eight major mountains of the mountain range, which is a part of the East African Rift Valley...
  
  
• Mount Nyamuragira
  Mount Nyamuragira
  Nyamuragira is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated about 25 km north of Lake Kivu.It has been described as Africa's most active volcano and has erupted over 40 times since 1885...
  
  
• Mount Nyiragongo
  Mount Nyiragongo
  Mount Nyiragongo is a stratovolcano in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Great Rift Valley. It is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda. The main crater...
  
  
• Mount Sabyinyo
  Mount Sabyinyo
  Mount Sabyinyo is an extinct volcano in eastern Africa, in the Virunga Mountains. The summit of the mountain, at , marks the intersection of the borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda...
  
  
• Mount Stanley
  Mount Stanley
  Mount Stanley is a mountain located in the Rwenzori range. With an elevation of 5,109 m , it is the highest mountain of both the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, and the third highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya . The peak and several other surrounding peaks are high...
  
  
• Mouvement National Congolais
  Mouvement National Congolais
  The Mouvement National Congolais is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-History:The party was founded in 1958 as a nationalist, pro-independence group in the Belgian Congo...
  
  
• Mouvement National Congolais-Kalonji
• Movement for the Liberation of Congo
  Movement for the Liberation of Congo
  The Movement for the Liberation of the Congo is a political party in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was a rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo that fought the government throughout the Second Congo War. It subsequently took part in the transitional government and is now...
  
  
• Mpinga Kasenda
  Mpinga Kasenda
  Mpinga Kasenda was a political figure in Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko. Kasenda was the prime minister of Zaire from 1977 to 1979 and the foreign minister from 1993 to 1994. He was killed in a plane crash near the airport in Kinshasa.-Notes:...
  
  
• Muanda
  Muanda
  Muanda or Moanda is a town lying on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo at the mouth of the Congo River. It is situated in Bas-Congo Province, and has a population of 50,000...
  
  
• Muanda Airport
  Muanda Airport
  Muanda Airport or Moanda Airport is an airport serving Muanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Facilities:...
  
  
• Mulungwishi
  Mulungwishi
  Mulungwishi is a community in the Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located 100 miles northwest of Lubumbashi. Bishop John M. Spinger established a mission station there in 1918. The United Methodist Church founded the Mulungwishi Seminary in 1951....
  
  
• Munga Mibindo
  Munga Mibindo
  Munga "Max" Mibindo served as the President Delegate General of SNEL, La Société Nationale d'Electricité, in the Republic of Zaire in the early and mid 1980s...
  
  
• Murara
  Murara
  Murara was a small, short-lived, volcano on the flank of Mount Nyamuragira, that began erupting on December 23, 1976. Eruptions from Murara reduced considerably after the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo on January 10, 1977 and ended completely in April 1977....
  
  
• Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Describing the music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult, due to vagaries surrounding the meanings of various terms. The country itself was formerly called Zaire and is now sometimes referred to as Congo-Kinshasa to distinguish it from the Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Musumba
  Musumba
  Musumba is a city in Lualaba Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the former capital of the Kingdom of Lunda. The Lunda empire was destroyed by Leopold II and his Force publique....
  
  
• Mutamba Milambo
  Mutamba Milambo
  Albert Milambo-Mutamba, known as Mutamba Milambo is a Congolese football midfielder. Currently, he plays in the Championnat National for AS Beauvais Oise....
  
  
• MV Liemba
  MV Liemba
  The MV Liemba, formerly the Graf von Götzen, is a passenger and cargo ferry that runs along the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika...
  
  
• Mwadi Mabika
  Mwadi Mabika
  Mwadi Mabika is a Congolese basketball player and an All-Star in the Women's National Basketball Association ....
  
  
• Mwata Yamvo
  Mwata Yamvo
  Mwata Yamvo is the name of the 16th Century founding ruler of the Lunda Kingdom and the title given to all subsequent rulers or paramount chiefs of the Lunda people to the present day...
  
  
• Mwene-Ditu
• Mwindo epic
  Mwindo epic
  The Mwindo Epic is an oral tale from the Democratic Republic of the Congo told by the Nyanga people. The origins and creation of the Mwindo epic are mostly unknown since the story is only passed down through Oral tradition...
  
  
• Myra Ndjoku Manianga
  Myra Ndjoku Manianga
  Myra Ndjoku Manianga is the Minister of the Interior of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He studied at the university of Nanterre in France. He was Secretary General of the State Security Committee. He is from Kasai-Occidental. He became minister in 2001....
  
  

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• N'djili Airport
• National Alliance of Democrats for Reconstruction
  National Alliance of Democrats for Reconstruction
  The National Alliance of Democrats for Reconstruction is a political party in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since the actual electoral strength of the political parties in Congo is not known, the size of the party cannot be determined....
  
  
• National Alliance Party for Unity
  National Alliance Party for Unity
  The National Alliance's Party for Unity is a centrist political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, founded in 2003. The leader of the party is former finance minister Dr. André-Philippe Futa who had a long career in the African Development Bank...
  
  
• National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Composition of the National Assembly...
  
  
• National Union of Congolese Workers
  National Union of Congolese Workers
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Nationalist and Integrationist Front
  Nationalist and Integrationist Front
  The Nationalist and Integrationist Front is a Lendu rebel group active in the Ituri conflict in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FNI has fought against the Hema tribe and is blamed for the ambush and murder of nine MONUC peacekeepers near the town of Kafe in February 2005...
  
  
• Negue Djogo
  Negue Djogo
  Negue Djogo was a Chadian officer and politician.A French-trained Sara officer, his first prominent assignment came in 1966 when, still a lieutenant, he was made by President François Tombalbaye prefect of the key Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region, which France, Chad's former colonial power, had...
  
  
• Ngaliema
  Ngaliema
  Ngaliema is a municipality in the Lukunga district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Location:Ngaliema is situated in the west of Kinshasa...
  
  
• Ngoyo
  Ngoyo
  Ngoyo was an Iron Age kingdom state of the Woyo tribe, located in the south of Cabinda . Located on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, just north of the Congo River, it was founded by Bantu-speaking people around the 15th century...
  
  
• Niemba
  Niemba
  Niemba is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Katanga Province. It is situated on the Lukuga River, a tributary of the Lualaba river. The population is around 1,800. It is connected by rail to Kalemie.-Niemba Ambush:...
  
  
• Nioki Airport
  Nioki Airport
  Nioki Airport is an airport in Nioki, Democratic Republic of the Congo....
  
  
• Nkutu
  Nkutu
  Nkutu is a Bantu language of northern Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Local dialects include Elembe, Hamba, Lokalo , Kongola-Meno, Ngongo, and Saka . It is a member of the Tetela family of Bantu languages and is closely related to Tetela, Kela, Kusu, and Yela....
  
  
• Nomad and National Guard
  Nomad and National Guard
  The National and Nomadic Guard of Chad is one of four defence and security forces in Chad....
  
  
• Nord-Kivu
  Nord-Kivu
  Nord-Kivu is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Its capital is Goma....
  
  
• Nord-Kivu Province
• Nord-Ubangi
• Nord-Ubangi Province
  Nord-Ubangi Province
  Nord-Ubangi is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
  Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
  The Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic is a forest and savanna ecoregion of central Africa, part of the belt of transitional forest-savanna mosaic that lie between Africa's equatorial forests and the tropical dry forests, savannas, and grasslands that lie to the north and south...
  
  
• Nsi Kwilu
  Nsi Kwilu
  Nsi Kwilu is a modern Kikongo respelling of "Essiquilu" the term used by the Italian Capuchin missionary Girolamo da Montesarchio in 1650 for the territory along the Kwilu River near Matadi in the modern-day Democratic Republic of Congo....
  
  
• Nsumbu Mazuwa
  Nsumbu Mazuwa
  Mazowa Nsumbu is a Congolese footballer.Mazowa started his career in Congolese club Tula-Mpaka and later moved to play in AS Vita Club in Congo. He then tried his luck in Belgium, but was not signed by any club and moved to Israel to play for Hapoel Haifa with his friend from Vita Club, Jeff Tutuana...
  
  
• Nsundi
  Nsundi
  Nsundi was a province of the old Kingdom of Kongo whose capital lay on the Inkisi River right on the border between modern-day Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.- History :...
  
  
• Ntumba Luaba
  Ntumba Luaba
  Ntumba Luaba is the Human Rights Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Prior to his current appointment, Ntumba was a Professor of Public International Law in Kinshasa...
  
  
• Nyanga language
  Nyanga language
  The Nyanga language is a language spoken by the Nyanga people in Kivu province, north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Speaker estimates range from 27,000 to 150,000 . Many of the Nyanga speak Congo Swahili, the dominant regional lingua franca, as a second language. Nyanga is a Bantu...
  
  
• Nyanga-li language
  Nyanga-li language
  Nyanga-li , Gbati-ri , and Mayeka form a dialect continuum of Bantu languages in Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo....
  
  
• Nyangwe
  Nyangwe
  Nyangwe was a town in Maniema, on the right bank of the Lualaba in the Democratic Republic of Congo . It was one of the main slave trading states in the region at the end of the 19th century....
  
  
• Nzanga Mobutu
  Nzanga Mobutu
  François-Joseph Mobutu Nzanga Ngbangawe is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is a son of former president Mobutu Sese Seko...
  
  

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• Office National des Transports (Congo)
  Office National des Transports (Congo)
  The Office National des Transports is a publicly owned company, based in Kinshasa, which operates railways, ports and river transport in the north and west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.- History :...
  
  
• OK Jazz
  OK Jazz
  TPOK Jazz, originally known as OK Jazz, was a rumba band in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from June 1956 until December 1993.-Location:...
  
  
• Okapi Wildlife Reserve
  Okapi Wildlife Reserve
  The Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a World Heritage Site in the Ituri Forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the borders with Sudan and Uganda...
  
  
• Ol Doinyo Lengai
  Ol Doinyo Lengai
  Ol Doinyo Lengai is an active volcano located in the north of Tanzania and is part of the volcanic system of the Great Rift Valley in Eastern Africa. It is located in the eastern Rift Valley, south of both Lake Natron and Kenya. It is unique among active volcanoes in that it produces...
  
  
• Olivier Kamitatu Etsu
  Olivier Kamitatu Etsu
  Olivier Kamitatu Etsu is a former rebel leader and politician of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the current Planning Minister in the government of Antoine Gizenga and the leader of the Alliance for the Renewal of Congo political party....
  
  
• Operation Epervier
• Operation Manta
  Operation Manta
  Operation Manta is the code name for the French military intervention in Chad between 1983 and 1984, during the Chadian-Libyan conflict. The operation was prompted by the invasion of Chad by a joint force of Libyan units and Chadian Transitional Government of National Unity rebels in June 1983...
  
  
• Operation North Night Final
  Operation North Night Final
  Operation North Night Final was a joint DR Congo-UN peacekeeper operation in December 2005 to restore peace in the troubled Ituri district in DR Congo. The operation was mainly aimed at fighting the Ugandan rebels stationed there and involved ca...
  
  
• Orientale, Congo
  Orientale, Congo
  Orientale is one of the ten provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The province lies in the northeast of the country. It borders Équateur province to the west, Kasai-Oriental province to the southwest, Maniema province to the south, and Nord-Kivu province to the southeast...
  
  
• Oscar Kashala Lukumuenda
  Oscar Kashala Lukumuenda
  Dr. Oscar Lukumuena Kashala is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was a candidate in the 2006 presidential election.Doctor Kashala is a graduate of Harvard University and has held senior executive positions in the pharmaceutical industry. He previously took a leave of absence...
  
  
• Ota Benga
  Ota Benga
  Ota Benga was a Congolese Mbuti pygmy known for being featured in a controversial human zoo exhibit at New York City's Bronx Zoo in 1906. Benga came to the United States through the action of businessman and missionary Samuel Phillips Verner...
  
  
• Ouadi Doum air raid

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• Panzi Hospital
  Panzi Hospital
  Panzi Hospital was founded in 1999 in Bukavu, the capital of the Sud-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It specializes in treating survivors of violence, the large majority of whom have been sexually abused.Director Dr...
  
  
• Papi Kimoto
  Papi Kimoto
  Papi Kimoto is a Congolese footballer who last played for RFC Liège.-External links:*...
  
  
• Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo consists of two chambers:*The Senate *The National Assembly -External links:*...
  
  
• Patrice Lumumba
  Patrice Lumumba
  Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese independence leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only ten weeks later, Lumumba's government was deposed in a coup during the Congo Crisis...
  
  
• People's Armed Forces
  People's Armed Forces
  The People's Armed Forces was a Chadian insurgent group composed of followers of Goukouni Oueddei after the schism with Hissène Habré in 1976...
  
  
• People's Armed Forces of Congo
  People's Armed Forces of Congo
  The People's Armed Forces of Congo is a rebel group based in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has been active in that region's conflict....
  
  
• People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy
  People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy
  The People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy is a center-left political party of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Pierre Mulele
  Pierre Mulele
  Pierre Mulele was a Congolese revolutionary who was briefly minister of education in Patrice Lumumba's cabinet. He was member of the Bapende ethnic group...
  
  
• Pierre Pay-Pay wa Syakasighe
  Pierre Pay-Pay wa Syakasighe
  Pierre Pay-Pay wa Syakasighe is a politician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, best known as a former governor of the central bank, the Banque Centrale du Congo from 1985 to 1991. He served in various governmental positions during the 1980s and 1990s before going into exile in 1997...
  
  
• Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Politics of the Democratic Republic of Congo take place in a framework of a republic in transition from a civil war to a semi-presidential democratic republic....
  
  
• Pool Malebo
  Pool Malebo
  The Pool Malebo , is a lake-like widening in the lower reaches of the Congo River....
  
  
• Popular Movement of the Revolution
  Popular Movement of the Revolution
  The Popular Movement of the Revolution was a Zairian political party established on May 20, 1967 by then-President Joseph-Désiré Mobutu .-Ideology:...
  
  
• Prefecture Apostolic of Welle
  Prefecture Apostolic of Welle
  The Prefecture Apostolic of Welle was a Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction located in the extreme north of Belgian Congo, Central Africa-History:...
  
  
• President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , is Congo's elected Head of State, and the ex officio "Supreme Commander" of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
  
  
• Pretoria Accord
  Pretoria Accord
  The Pretoria Accord was a July 2002 agreement made between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in an effort to bring about an end to the Second Congo War...
  
  
• Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , is Congo's Head of Government.-History:The current Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Adolphe Muzito...
  
  
• Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  There are currently ten provinces and one city-province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:* An Ituri Interim Administration also exists in the Ituri region of Orientale province- Proposed provinces :...
  
  
• Public holidays in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Pygmies
• Pygmy music
  Pygmy music
  The Pygmies are a broad group of people who live in Central Africa, especially in the Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. Music is an important part of Pygmy life, and casual performances take place during many of the day's events...
  
  

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• Rain forest
• Rassemblement Démocratique pour le Rwanda
• Republic of the Congo
  Republic of the Congo
  The Republic of the Congo , sometimes known locally as Congo-Brazzaville, is a state in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda, and the Gulf of Guinea.The region was dominated by...
  
  
• Rift Valley lakes
  Rift Valley lakes
  The Rift Valley lakes are a group of lakes in the Great Rift Valley formed by the East African Rift which runs through the whole eastern side of the African continent from north to south...
  
  
• Roger Lumbala
  Roger Lumbala
  Roger Lumbala is an MP in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, representing the Rally of Congolese Democrats and Nationalists. He is a former rebel leader who was backed by Uganda during the 1998-2002 Congolese civil war.-References:...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bukavu
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kananga
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kinshasa
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kisangani
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lubumbashi
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro
• Roman Catholicism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Roman Catholicism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Roman Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....
  
  
• Rulers of Kuba
• Rutshuru
  Rutshuru
  Rutshuru, sometimes called Rushuru, is a town located in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is headquarters of an administrative district, the Rutshuru Territory. The town lies in the western branch of the Great Rift Valley between Lakes Edward and Kivu...
  
  
• Ruwenzori Range
  Ruwenzori Range
  The Rwenzori Mountains, previously called the Ruwenzori Range , and sometimes the Mountains of the Moon, is a mountain range of central Africa, often referred to as Mt...
  
  
• Ruzizi River
  Ruzizi River
  The Ruzizi , is a river which flows from Lake Kivu to Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, descending rapidly from about 1,500 metres above sea level to about 770 metres above sea level over its length...
  
  
• Rwanda
  Rwanda
  Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  

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• Sake, DRC
  Sake, DRC
  Sake is a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the eastern province of North Kivu. It is located at the northwestern extremity of Lake Kivu, 25 km west-northwest of Goma on National Road No. 2, at the edge of the volcanic lava plains in the bottom of the Great Rift Valley, western...
  
  
• Salonga National Park
  Salonga National Park
  Salonga National Park is a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo located in the Congo River basin. It is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve covering about 36,000 km². Animals in the park include bonobos, Salonga monkeys, Tshuapa red colobus, Zaire peacocks, forest...
  
  
• Sango language
  Sango language
  Sango is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it has approximately 1,600,000 second-language speakers, but only about 404,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.- Classification :...
  
  
• Sankuru Province
  Sankuru Province
  Sankuru is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226. As of October 2010, this had not taken place...
  
  
• Sankuru River
  Sankuru River
  Sankuru River is a major river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its approximate length of 1,230 km makes it the longest tributary of Kasai River....
  
  
• Second Congo War
  Second Congo War
  The Second Congo War, also known as Coltan War and the Great War of Africa, began in August 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , and officially ended in July 2003 when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power; however, hostilities continue to this...
  
  
• Semliki River
  Semliki River
  Semliki River is a major river in Central Africa. It flows northwards from Lake Edward in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, across the Uganda border, through western Uganda in Bundibugyo District, near the Semuliki National Park. It empties into Lake Albert at...
  
  
• Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Senate is the upper house of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.During the transition period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Senate, aside from its Legislative role, also had the task of drafting the country's new constitution...
  
  
• Shaba I
  Shaba I
  Shaba I was a conflict between the neighbouring states of Zaire and Angola in 1977, and was arguably a consequence of Zaire's support for the FNLA and UNITA factions in the Angolan Civil War....
  
  
• Shaba North
  Shaba North
  Shaba North was the launch site of the first rockets launched by Orbital Transport und Raketen AktienGesellschaft, or Orbital Forwarding Company in English...
  
  
• Shaba Province
• Shinkolobwe
  Shinkolobwe
  Shinkolobwe is the name of a town and a mine in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , located near the larger town of Likasi and about 120 miles northwest of Lubumbashi. The former mine was located in the centre of a 400 kilometre long belt of uranified minerals, stretching...
  
  
• Siege of Jadotville
  Siege of Jadotville
  The Siege of Jadotville took place in September 1961, during the United Nations intervention in the Katanga conflict in the Congo, central Africa, when a company of Irish UN troops was attacked by troops loyal to the Katangese Prime Minister Moise Tshombe...
  
  
• Société nationale d'électricité (SNEL)
  Société nationale d'électricité (SNEL)
  Société nationale d'électricité is the national electricity company of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its head office building is located in the district of La Gombe in the capital city, Kinshasa. SNEL operates the Inga Dam facility on the Congo River, and also operates thermal power...
  
  
• Soukous
  Soukous
  Soukous is a dance music genre that originated in the two neighbouring countries of Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has gained popularity throughout Africa...
  
  
• South Kasai
  South Kasai
  South Kasai was a secessionist region in the area of south central Republic of the Congo during the early 1960s. The region sought independence in similar circumstances to neighboring State of Katanga during the political turmoil arising from the decolonization of Belgian Congo...
  
  
• Special Presidential Division
  Special Presidential Division
  The Special Presidential Division was an elite military force created by Zairian president Mobutu Sese Seko in 1985 and charged with his personal security...
  
  
• Stade de Virunga
  Stade de Virunga
  Stade de Virunga is a multi-use stadium in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home venue for DC Virunga. The stadium has a capacity of 8,000 people....
  
  
• Stade des Martyrs
  Stade des Martyrs
  Stade des Martyrs of Pentecost, also known as simply Stade des Martyrs and formerly known as Stade Kamanyola is a national stadium located in the town of Lingwala in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Stade Municipal de Lubumbashi
  Stade Municipal de Lubumbashi
  Stade Frederic Kibassa Maliba de Lubumbashi is a multi-use stadium in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is home of the Tout Puissant Mazembe, a Congolese professional football team. The stadium has a capacity of 35,000 people...
  
  
• Stade Municipal de Vita Kabasha
  Stade Municipal de Vita Kabasha
  Stade Municipal de Vita Kabasha is a multi-use stadium in Vita Kabasha, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home venue for AS Kabasha. The stadium has a capacity of 5,000 people....
  
  
• Stade Tata Raphaël
  Stade Tata Raphaël
  Stade Tata Raphaël is a multi-purpose stadium in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Originally known as Stade Roi Baudouin when it was inaugurated in 1952 and Stade du 20 Mai in 1967, it was used mostly for football matches...
  
  
• Stairs Expedition to Katanga
  Stairs Expedition to Katanga
  The Stairs Expedition to Katanga of 1891−1892 led by Captain William Stairs was the winner in a race between two imperial powers to claim Katanga, a vast mineral-rich territory in Central Africa for civilization, during which a local chief, was killed...
  
  
• Sudan
  Sudan
  Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
  
  
• Sud-Kivu
  Sud-Kivu
  Sud-Kivu is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Bukavu.Following the 2005 Constitution , 25 new provinces were to be created from the 10 current provinces within 36 months . As of October 2010, this had not taken place...
  
  
• Sud-Kivu Province
• Sud-Ubangi Province
  Sud-Ubangi Province
  Sud-Ubangi is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226...
  
  
• Sumba (Congo)
  Sumba (Congo)
  Sumba is the largest island in the Congo River. Its area is about 500 km². It belongs to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-External links:* http://www.worldislandinfo.com/COUNTRYV2.htm...
  
  
• Sun City Agreement
  Sun City Agreement
  The Sun City Agreement was an agreement that was signed between some of the warring parties in the Second Congo War on 19 April 2002 at the luxury South African casino resort of Sun City, as a result of the Inter-Congolese dialogue...
  
  

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• Tagbu
  Tagbu
  Tagbu is an ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan. They speak Tagbu, a Ubangian language. They likely number several 10,000....
  
  
• Tanganyika District
  Tanganyika District
  Tanganyika District is a district located in the Katanga Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Under the February 2006 constitution the district was to be upgraded to Tanganyika Province. As of 2011 this had not happened.-References:...
  
  
• Tanganyika Province
  Tanganyika Province
  Tanganyika is a new province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be established when the country's new constitution is implemented by dividing Katanga Province into four parts. Tanganyika province will succeed Katanga's Tanganyika District...
  
  
• Tanzania
  Tanzania
  The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
  
  
• Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The provinces and districts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are divided into 192 territories and communes...
  
  
• Tetela language
  Tetela language
  Tetela , also Sungu, is a Bantu language of northern Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a member of the Tetela family of Bantu languages and is closely related to Nkutu, Kusu, and Yela....
  
  
• Thangata
  Thangata
  "Thangata" is the Congolese term for work without compensation. It was used during the Belgian colonization of the Congo when the Belgian colonists would frequently order native Congolese to do menial labor for no material gain....
  
  
• The Rumble in the Jungle
  The Rumble in the Jungle
  The Rumble in the Jungle was a historic boxing event that took place on October 30, 1974, in the Mai 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire . It pitted then world Heavyweight champion George Foreman against former world champion and challenger Muhammad Ali...
  
  
• Théophile Mbemba Fundu
  Théophile Mbemba Fundu
  Professor Théophile Mbemba Fundu was the Interior Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2001 until 2006. He was governor of Kinshasa from 1997 until 2001.-References:...
  
  
• Tim Biakabutuka
  Tim Biakabutuka
  Tshimanga "Tim" Biakabutuka is a former American football running back for the Carolina Panthers of the NFL from 1996 to 2001.-College career at Michigan:...
  
  
• Tippu Tip
  Tippu Tip
  Tippu Tip or Tib , real name Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Sa‘īd al-Murghabī, , was a Swahili-Zanzibari trader. He was famously known as Tippu Tib after an eye disease which made him blind...
  
  
• Toubou
  Toubou
  The Tubu are an ethnic group that live mainly in northern Chad, but also in Libya, Niger and Sudan....
  
  
• Toyota War
  Toyota War
  The Toyota War is the name commonly given to the last phase of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, which took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the Libyan-Chadian border. It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks used as technicals to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought...
  
  
• TP Mazembe
  TP Mazembe
  Tout Puissant Mazembe, formerly known as Englebert, are a Congolese football club based in Lubumbashi. Their home games are played at Stade Municipal de Lubumbashi. Its nickname is Les corbeaux despite having a crocodile with a ball in its mouth on the team crest...
  
  
• Trans Service Airlift
  Trans Service Airlift
  Trans Service Airlift was an airline based at N'djili Airport, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was privately owned and operated in years 1991-1998.- Incidents and accidents :...
  
  
• Transitional Government of National Unity
• Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo was tasked with moving from the state riven by the Second Congo War to a government based upon a constitution agreed on by consensus. In 2001 President Laurent Kabila was assassinated and his son Joseph Kabila was named head of state...
  
  
• Transitional National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Ground transport in the Democratic Republic of Congo has always been difficult. The terrain and climate of the Congo Basin present serious barriers to road and rail construction, and the distances are enormous across this vast country...
  
  
• True Jesus Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  True Jesus Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The True Jesus Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the branch in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of the True Jesus Church, a nontrinitarian Christian denomination begun in China, growing out of the Pentecostal movement...
  
  
• Tshela
  Tshela
  Tshela is the main town of Bas-fleuve district, in Bas-Congo Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo . It was the birthplace of Joseph Kasa-Vubu, the first president of the Republic of Congo, after independence from Belgium, in 1960. The town was linked to the port of Boma, Congo by an...
  
  
• Tshikapa
  Tshikapa
  Tshikapa is a city in Kasaï District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located about 40 miles north of the Angolan border and 120 miles west of province capital Kananga at the confluence of the Tshikapa and Kasai rivers. According to records published by the Utrecht University...
  
  
• Tshikapa Airport
  Tshikapa Airport
  Tshikapa Airport is an airport in Tshikapa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Accidents and incidents:In 1988, Vickers Viscount 9Q-CTS of Filair was damaged beyond economic repair in a landing accident....
  
  
• Tshiluba language
  Tshiluba language
  Luba-Kasai is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a national language, along with Lingala, Swahili, and Kikongo. It is one of two major Congolese languages called "Luba"...
  
  
• Tshimpi Airport
  Tshimpi Airport
  Tshimpi Airport is an airport in Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
  
  
• Tshombe Airport
  Tshombe Airport
  Tshumbe Airport is an airport serving Tshumbe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Facilities:The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level and has a runway which is long....
  
  
• Tshopo Province
  Tshopo Province
  Tshopo is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution . It was to be created from the country's existing 10 provinces within 36 months . As of October 2010, this had not taken place...
  
  
• Tshuapa Province
  Tshuapa Province
  Tshuapa is one of 25 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo specified in the country's 2005 Constitution , under Article 2. It was to be created from country's the existing 10 provinces within 36 months , according to Article 226. As of October 2010, this had not taken place.The...
  
  
• Twa peoples

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• Ubangi River
  Ubangi River
  The Ubangi River , also spelled Oubangui, is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River of Central Africa. It begins at the confluence of the Mbomou and Uele Rivers and flows west, then bends to the southwest and passes through Bangui, after which it flows south to the Congo at Liranga....
  
  
• Ubundu
  Ubundu
  Ubundu, formerly known as Ponthierville or Ponthierstad, is a city located in Tshopo District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is on the Congo River, just above the Boyoma Falls...
  
  
• Uele River
  Uele River
  The Uele River, also spelled Welle River, is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It originates in the mountains near Lake Albert and flows west for about to join the Mbomou River at Yakoma....
  
  
• Uganda
  Uganda
  Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
  
  
• Unified Lumumbist Party
• Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Union for the Republic National Movement
  Union for the Republic National Movement
  The Union for the Republic National Movement is a political party of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that was formed in 2001 by Frédéric Boyenga-Bofala.- Mission :...
  
  
• Union Minière du Haut Katanga
  Union Minière du Haut Katanga
  The Union Minière du Haut Katanga was a Belgian mining company, once operating in Katanga, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Union of Congolese Patriots
  Union of Congolese Patriots
  The Union of Congolese Patriots is an armed group in Ituri, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were in 2003 said to be 15000 soldiers . It has carried out numerous attacks upon civilians and other serious human rights abuses in pursuit of its policies...
  
  
• Union of Federalists and Independent Republicans
  Union of Federalists and Independent Republicans
  The Union of Federalists and Independent Republicans is a political party in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since the actual electoral strength of the political parties in Congo is not known, the size of the party cannot be determined....
  
  
• United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or MONUSCO , is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which was established by the United Nations Security Council in resolutions 1279...
  
  
• United Nations Operation in the Congo
  United Nations Operation in the Congo
  Opération des Nations unies au Congo, abbreviated ONUC, was a United Nations peacekeeping force in Congo that was established after United Nations Security Council Resolution 143 of July 14, 1960...
  
  
• United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.From 1877 until 1960, the republic had been a colony of Belgium, first under the name Congo Free State and then Belgian Congo....
  
  
• University of Goma
  University of Goma
  The University of Goma is a public university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The university was created in 1993 and it is located in the city of Goma, near Lake Kivu in the east of the country. The rector of the school is Jean-Baptiste Gakura Semacumu.-External links: *...
  
  
• University of Kinshasa
  University of Kinshasa
  The University of Kinshasa , was one of three universities, along with University of Kisangani and University of Lubumbashi, created following the division of the National University of Zaire...
  
  
• University of Kisangani
  University of Kisangani
  The University of Kisangani is located in the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was founded in 1963 by Protestant missionaries as the Free University of Congo; it was transformed into part of the National University of Zaire in 1971, and in 1981 was separated from that...
  
  
• University of Lubumbashi
  University of Lubumbashi
  The University of Lubumbashi is one of the largest universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located in Lubumbashi, the capital city of Katanga province....
  
  
• Upemba Depression
  Upemba Depression
  Upemba Depression or Kamalondo Depression which is more commonly known by its French name Dépression de l'Upemba is a large marshy bowl area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo comprising some fifty lakes, including 22 of relatively large size including Lake Upemba and Lake Kisale...
  
  
• Upemba National Park
  Upemba National Park
  Upemba National Park is a large park in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Located in a lush area dotted by lakes, including the eponymous Lake Upemba, and bordered by the Lualaba River, its 11,730 km² dominates the Kibara Plateau....
  
  
• Uranium
  Uranium
  Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table, with atomic number 92. It is assigned the chemical symbol U. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons...
  
  
• Uvira
  Uvira
  Uvira is a city in Sud-Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, located at the extreme north end of Lake Tanganyika. There is a lake port called Kalundu at the southern end of the town, which provides links by boat to Kalemie, Kigoma in Tanzania, and Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi.The town...
  
  

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• Velours du Kasaï
  Velours du Kasaï
  Velours du Kasaï is a kind of textile fabric made in Kasai, a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Traditionally, the weaving is done by men of the Shoowa from the Kuba ethnic group, while the embroidery is reserved to women. Ideally, the embroiderers should be pregnant...
  
  
• Vice Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Vice Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Following the end of the Second Congo War, and until December 6, 2006, transitional institutions were established, consisting of the former warring parties, as well as representatives of the non-belligerent opposition, and representatives of the civil society...
  
  
• Vicky Longomba
  Vicky Longomba
  Vicky Longomba was a singer and a founding member of Tout puissant OK Jazz, a Congolese rumba group.He later formed his own group, Lovy du Zaire....
  
  
• Virunga Mountains
  Virunga Mountains
  The Virunga Mountains are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, along the northern border of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The mountain range is a branch of the Albertine Rift, a part of the Great Rift Valley. They are located between Lake Edward and Lake Kivu...
  
  
• Virunga National Park
  Virunga National Park
  The Virunga National Park , formerly named Albert National Park, is a 7800 square km National Park that stretches from the Virunga Mountains in the South, to the Rwenzori Mountains in the North, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori...
  
  
• Vital Kamerhe
  Vital Kamerhe
  Vital Kamerhe is a Congolese politician. Former Speaker of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and former Minister of Information, he is currently Honorary President of the National Assembly, founder and leader of the UNC party and candidate to the 2011 presidential...
  
  
• Vivi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Vivi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Vivi is a town in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the Congo River, near the provincial capital of Matadi. In the 19th century, it served as the first capital of the Congo Free State from July, 1885 to May 1, 1886, when the capital was relocated to...
  
  
• Volcan Army
  Volcan Army
  The Volcan Army was a Chadian insurgent rebel group that was active during the Chadian Civil War. The movement was founded in 1970 by the Arab insurgent leader Mohamed Baghlani, who had been expelled in June from the FROLINAT by the organization's secretary-general Abba Siddick...
  
  
• Volcan Rumoka
  Volcan Rumoka
  Volcan Rumoka, also known as Rumoka and Le Rumoka, is a cinder cone volcano in Nord-Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo . The volcano is a minor satellite cone on the flanks of the massive shield volcano of Nyamuragira. It is located about 16 km south of Nyamuragira's caldera....
  
  

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• Wendo Kolosoy
  Wendo Kolosoy
  Antoine Wendo Kolosoy — known as Papa Wendo — was a Congolese musician. He was considered the "Father" of Congolese rumba music, a musical style blending rumba, beguine, waltz, tango and cha-cha.-Early life:...
  
  
• Western Congolian swamp forests
  Western Congolian swamp forests
  The Western Congolian swamp forests are an ecoregion of the Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Together with the adjacent Eastern Congolian swamp forests, it forms one of the largest continuous areas of freshwater swamp forest in the world. It is a flooded forest with a...
  
  
• Wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  The wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo includes its fauna and flora.-Overview:The country's rainforests contain great biodiversity, including many rare and endemic species, such as both species of chimpanzee: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo , mountain tigers, okapi and white rhino...
  
  
• Willy Kalombo Mwenze
  Willy Kalombo Mwenze
  Willy Kalombo Mwenze is a retired long-distance runner from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who specialized in the marathon race....
  
  
• Wimbi Dira Airways
  Wimbi Dira Airways
  Wimbi Dira Airways is a scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo airline based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It serves the country's main cities.-History:The airline was established in 2003 and operations started on 13 August 2003...
  
  
• Wochua
  Wochua
  The Wochua was the endonym of a pygmy people of the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, south of the Welle River. They were first described in the Western world in 1880–1883 by Wilhelm Junker...
  
  

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• Zaiko Langa Langa
  Zaiko Langa Langa
  Zaiko Langa Langa are a seminal soukous band from DR Congo. The word "Zaiko" is a portmanteau for the lingala phrase Zaire ya bankoko, meaning "Zaire of our ancestors", where "Zaire" must be read as a reference to the river by that name, now called Congo...
  
  
• Zaire
  Zaire
  The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...
  
  
• Zaire at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Zaire at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Zaire competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.It had been 16 years since the previous time that the nation was represented at the Olympic Games, as Congo Kinshasa at the 1968 Summer Olympics.- Athletics :Men's 5,000 metres* Masini Situ-Kumbanga* Heat — 15:02.52 Men's...
  
  
• Zaire at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Zaire at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Zaire competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.-Athletics:Men's 10000 metres* Kamana KojiMen's Marathon* Kamana Koji — 2:38:34...
  
  
• Zaire at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Zaire at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Zaire competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-Athletics:Men's 5.000 metres*Mwenze Kalombo* Heat — did not start Men's 4x400m Relay...
  
  
• Zaire at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Zaire at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Zaire competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-Athletics:Men's Marathon* Mwenze Kalombo → 16th place * Kaleka Mutoke → 96th place...
  
  
• Zairean zaire
  Zairean zaire
  The zaïre was the unit of currency of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and then of the Republic of Zaïre from 1967 until 1997. There were two distinct currencies.-Zaïre, 1967-1993:...
  
  
• Zairian Socialist Party
  Zairian Socialist Party
  Zairian Socialist Party was a Zairian political party, based in exile. The general secretary of the party was Betou Aime....
  
  
• Zambia
  Zambia
  Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
  
  
• Zande language
  Zande language
  Zande is an Ubangian language spoken by the Azande, primarily in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western South Sudan, but also in the eastern part of the Central African Republic.-External links:****...
  
  
• Zinc
  Zinc
  Zinc , or spelter , is a metallic chemical element; it has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table. Zinc is, in some respects, chemically similar to magnesium, because its ion is of similar size and its only common oxidation state is +2...
  
  
• Zola Matumona
  Zola Matumona
  Zola Matumona is a Congolese footballer. He is currently playing in the Belgian Pro League for R.A.E.C. Mons. He also plays for the Democratic Republic of Congo.-Career:...
  
  
• Zongo
  Zongo
  Zongo is a city in Sud-Ubangi Province in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on the south bank of the Ubangi River, across from Bangui in the Central African Republic...
  
  
• .zr
  .zr
  .zr is the former Internet country code top-level domain for Zaire. Because Zaire was renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997, .zr was phased out and .cd took its place. In 2001, .zr was finally terminated.-External links:* , 20 June 2001...
  
  
• Zyoba
  Zyoba
  The Zyoba are an ethnic and linguistic group based near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo who speak the Joba language....
  
  

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