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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for banana
		A rail and road hub, Kindia is the trade center for an area where bananas, manioc, rice, fruits, and vegetables are grown and bauxite is mined.
		It is situated on Banderas Bay, in the Pacific coastal lowland, south of the mouth of the Ameca River.
		The WTO banana dispute settlement and its implications for trade relations between the United States and the European Union.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=banana&StartAt=71 (773 words)

	Congo Free State - LoveToKnow 1911
		CONGO FREE STATE, the name formerly given by British writers to the Etat Independant du Congo, a state of equatorial Africa which occupied the greater part of the basin of the Congo river.
		Banana, close to the mouth of the Congo and Banana Point, possesses one of the best natural harbours on the west coast of Africa, and is capable of sheltering vessels of the largest tonnage.
		They grew bananas, manioc, the sweet potato, the sugarcane, maize, sorghum, rice, millet, eleusine and other fruits and vegetables, as well as tobacco, but the constant state of fear in which they lived, either of their neighbours or of the Arabs, offered small inducement to industry.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Congo_Free_State (10947 words)

	Banana
		The banana plant, often erroneously referred to as a "tree", is a large herb, with succulent, very juicy stem (properly "pseudostem") which is a cylinder of leaf-petiole sheaths, reaching a height of 20 to 25 ft (6-7.5 m) and arising from a fleshy rhizome or corm.
		In Australia, bananas are planted on sunny hill sides at elevations of 200 to 1,000 ft (60 to 300 m) to avoid the cold air that settles at lower levels.
		Banana bunches are harvested with a curved knife when the fruits are fully developed, that is, 75% mature, the angles are becoming less prominent and the fruits on the upper hands are changing to light green; and the flower remnants (styles) are easily rubbed off the tips.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/morton/banana.html (14108 words)

	Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Banana is a seaport and a township in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Atlantic coast.
		Following the Conference of Berlin (1884-85) the European powers recognized Léopold's claim to the Congo basin, and in a ceremony (1885) at Banana, the king announced the establishment of the Congo Free State, headed by himself, beginning the dark period of European rule.
		Banana was the main Belgian naval base of the Congo until independence in 1960.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banana,_Congo (273 words)

	ipedia.com: Banana Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A banana is a tree-like plant of the genus Musa in the family Musaceae, closely related to plantain.
		The term banana is also applied to the elongated fruit (technically a false berry), which grows (in edible species and varieties) in hanging clusters, several to many fruits to a tier (called a hand), many tiers to a bunch.
		In the 1940s and 1950s, an urban legend about bananas involved tarantulas arriving in the neighborhood hidden among the hands of the banana bunch (the idea that exotic spiders can arrive with bananas appears to be not completely a myth however, see external link for an instance in the UK in 2003).
	www.ipedia.com /banana.html (923 words)

	For Congo's Pygmies, fragile aspirations - The Boston Globe
		For Congo's Pygmies, fragile aspirations - The Boston Globe
		As this decrepit country awaits results in the first democratic elections in 40 years, Ngenderezi and his group, among an estimated 600,000 Pygmies considered to be the aboriginal people of Congo, are perhaps as good a barometer as any of the fragile aspirations of its people.
		Perhaps more so than any of the 400 other ethnic groups in Congo, Pygmies have historically been ostracized or romanticized for their traditions, and cut off from education, healthcare, and any legal means of securing land they have inhabited for centuries in the forests.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/12/03/for_congos_pygmies_fragile_aspirations (922 words)

	Congo, river, Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Lualaba River, considered to be the upper Congo River, rises in SE Congo (Kinshasa), flows north over rapids and falls to Bukama, and thence across a vast plain and through a series of marshy lakes (Kabwe, Kabele, Upemba) to receive the Luvua River at Ankoro.
		Below Matadi (83 mi/134 km inland) the Congo is navigable by oceangoing vessels and, despite such hazards as the whirlpools of the Devil’s Cauldron, shifting sandbars, and sharp bends in the river, forms one of the largest natural harbors in Africa.
		The forest is threatened by illegal logging and the poaching of large mammals (especially for the bushmeat trade), but two summits (1999, 2005) that brought together the nations of the basin have committed its participants to forest conservation and have led to the establishment of wildlife preserves.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Congo.html (797 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		At the Conference of Berlin (1884–85) the European powers recognized Leopold’s claim to the Congo basin, and in a ceremony (1885) at Banana, the king announced the establishment of the Congo Free State, headed by himself.
		In 1891–92, Katanga was conquered, and between 1892 and 1894, E Congo was wrested from the control of E African Arab and Swahili traders (including Tippu Tib, who for a time had served as an administrator of the Congo).
		Fighting between militias and UN peacekeepers erupted in NE Congo in Feb.–Mar., 2005, as the area remain unpacified and the militias resisted disarming.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Congo-Kin.html (4090 words)

	Mandela receives fugitive Banana in snub to Mugabe
		Banana skipped bail and slipped out of Zimbabwe just before the High Court in Harare found him guilty on 11 charges of sodomy, attempted sodomy and assault.
		Banana, a 62-year-old Methodist minister who is married with four children, was Zimbabwe's largely ceremonial president from independence until 1987, when the then Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, became executive president.
		South African officials said Banana had not sought asylum and did not intend to stay in the country for long.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/12/04/wsaf04.html (508 words)

	Congo's Warring Factions Leave a Trail of Rape
		Among them was a mother of two, clutching a child at her breasts, a pregnant woman holding her belly, a girl in a tattered blue school uniform skirt.
		The medical convoy brought a doctor, a lab technician and two midwives, and the women of Burhale had sent word through the banana groves and had gone to fetch those they knew to be in need of help.
		Across eastern Congo and most noticeably in South Kivu, rape or the threat of rape has scattered villagers, spread disease and split families.
	www.genocidewatch.org /CongoJune9RapeVctms.htm (1142 words)

	Press Releases: East Africa Drought, Burundi: Press release - banana disease
		BXW causes early ripening and rotting of the banana fruits, and results in the wilting and death of the plant.
		Bananas are considered the most important food crop in Burundi, with an estimated average consumption of 300 kg per year.
		Up to 25% of the cultivated area in Burundi is planted with bananas, as they serve not only as an essential food source and socio-cultural role, but also a significant income generation source, as bananas are sold both for eating and the manufacture of banana beer, known locally as « ugwagwa» and « insongo ».
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LTIO-6V4TBS?OpenDocument (255 words)

	US Navy Congo River Expedition of 1885
		The principal town is at the confluence of the N’Tumba River with the Congo.
		From Banana to the Upoto District, the natives are armed with flintlock muskets, knives, and spears, bows, poisoned arrows, and shield.
		The native food of the Upper Congo is the manioc, chiquango, banana, plantain, yams, sweet potatoes, peas, and beans, with goat, sheep, fowl, and duck.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/online/congo_rvr_exp.htm (20111 words)

	WHKMLA Documents : J.W. Wack, the Story of the Congo Free State, 1905, ch.24 pt.a
		The Sovereign of the Congo Free State adheres to a gospel of labour of which he is personally the greatest exemplar in Europe.
		The charge, sometimes uttered against King Leopold, that his interest in the Congo is merely what it can be made to yield him during his lifetime, dissolves into the mist of the slander it becomes in the presence of the physical improvement going on, with mighty strides, in Congoland.
		The first steamers launched on the Upper Congo were of only five tons, their component parts having been carried on men's backs along caravan routes long before the construction of the railway of the Cataracts.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/documents/wack/wackch24a.html (2447 words)

	Points of View 06-5: Banana bacterial wilt - refining the 'road map' for control
		Approximately one third of Uganda's banana growing land is now affected by the disease, which renders fruit inedible and ultimately kills the plant.
		The Ugandan government has been praised for its promptness in attempting to control the spread (see Uganda's war on wilt), but despite these efforts, and the encouraging success of control in some areas, the risk of further spread, both within and beyond Uganda, remains.
		In the highland banana types this mode of spread seems to be much less frequent, and it appears that a more common mode of spread is during leaf pruning.
	www.new-agri.co.uk /06-5/pov.html (1683 words)

	Marineafric - YOUR CYBER WINDOW TO AFRICA MARITIME INFORMATION AND RESEARCH
		From BOMA: Departure of Matadi; berthed at quay from 06:00 until 15:30, coming from Banana, From 06:00 until 16:00 Departure for Banana; Berthed at quay from 06:00 until 14:30, coming from Matadi and passing Boma after the mentioned hours must anchor at Boma until the next morning.
		Navigation of the Zaire River between Banana and Matadi is limited to day-light hours ; light buoys are placed alongside the river but sometimes adrift.
		Between Banana and Boma, owing to sandbanks, the permitted draft is between 6.4 and 8.53 m depending on the season.
	www.marineafric.com /english/gen-info/ports/port_congo_dr.htm (1737 words)

	Creative banana dealers break into export markets
		In the Congo, banana crisps from Tanzania are said to have edged out wheat and cassava processed crisps because of their quality and brisk build-up toward goodwill.
		Supplies from smallholder banana peasants could be an option, but poor farming methods end up in producing banana fruits which are inferior for purposes of manufacturing banana crisps.
		Annual bumper harvests of banana crop are wasted in areas such as Kilimanjaro, Kagera, Morogoro and Kagera regions because the produce is perishable by its nature.
	www.ippmedia.com /ipp/financial/2006/06/28/69245.html (544 words)

	afcharacins
		The sources of the Congo are in the highlands and mountains of the East Africa Rift, as well as Lake Tanganyika (the Lukuga River) and Lake Mweru, which feed the Lualaba River (considered to be the upper Congo River), which then becomes the Congo River proper below Stanley Falls.
		Below Matadi some 134 km inland the Congo is navigable by oceangoing vessels and, despite such hazards as the whirlpools of the Devil's Cauldron, shifting sandbars, and sharp bends in the river, forms one of the largest natural harbors in Africa.
		Tody, the Congo is still a place of political tensions and disturbance, which hinders economic growth and development in the area.
	www.wetpetz.com /afcharacin.htm (1679 words)

	IPGRI-SSA Banana Networks
		It has 12 country (Benin, Cameroun, the Central African Republic, The Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Senegal) and three institutional (IITA, CRBP and INIBAP) members.
		MUSACO members recommended that fact sheets be prepared on technologies available in the subregion and that germplasm collections be made in the Congo basin and elsewhere in order to characterize and conserve the complete diversity of Musa in West and central Africa.
		BARNESA was formed in October 1994 by a consortium of national, regional and international research organizations with an interest in banana research in the region.
	www.ipgri.cgiar.org /regions/ssa/Networking/banana.htm (325 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikitravel
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Republique Democratique du Congo) (Abbreviated:DROC) is a country in Central Africa.
		In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a government of national unity.
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo should be considered a high-risk destination, particularly outside Kinshasa, Goma and Kisangani.
	wikitravel.org /en/Congo,_Democratic_Republic_of_the (962 words)

	yourDictionary.com Agora Discussion Board
		Bananas in the sense of "nuts" is 1970s slang.
		Top banana, second banana, etc. are 1950s, from show business slang use of banana for "comedian, especially in a burlesque show."
		Pg or Sp banana (the fruit), banano (the tree).
	www.yourdictionary.com /cgi-bin/agora/agora.cgi?board=etymology;action=display;num=1043157590 (228 words)

	INIBAP -- - MUSACO
		The Réseau Musa pour l'Afrique Centrale et Occidentale (MUSACO) was founded in 1997, at the invitation of theWest and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD).
		Its objectives are to strengthen and coordinate regional cooperation, strengthen the capacity of National Agricultural Research Systems, facilitate information exchange, technology transfer and facilitate the monitoring of banana research and development and assess its impact in the region.
		Congo – Délégation générale à la recherche scientifique et technologique (DGRST)
	bananas.bioversityinternational.org /content/view/76/106/lang,fr (286 words)

	Popa's Tales: The Flow in the River is Constant
		So it was that he sent Stanley to the Congo, ostensibly to do scientific research and to combat slavery.
		He called it the Congo Free State, and it was not a colony of Belgian but his personally.
		Mobutu was installed as the leader of the Congo (which he renamed Zaire), and he ran it with an iron hand until 1997.
	www.paracompusa.com /SmartScience/Popa/Vol3-6.html (699 words)

	Checklist of the birds of Congo
		Total species observed in the D.R.C. is 1.140, as of February 14th 2005 with Chiffchaff and Mountain Pipit Anthus hoeschi being the most recent additions.
		If you would like a copy of this checklist in Microsoft Word format (620 kb in size, complete with a map), please write a request in my guestbook, and I will email you the checklist as an e-mail attachment.
		September 1955 in south-east Tshuapa, misidentified among White-winged Terns in the museum.
	www.tommy777.addr.com /Congo-list.htm (518 words)

	About African Cooking - The Congo Cookbook (African recipes) www.congocookbook.com -
		The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the only cook (the best cook).
		The Congo Cookbook is a collection of African recipes and information about African cooking and food.
		As a thank-you for any donation you will be able to obtain the downloadable Congo Cookbook PDF file, which contains all of the recipes displayed on the website.
	www.congocookbook.com /about_african_cooking (202 words)

	TIME.com: Where's the War? -- Aug. 8, 1960 -- Page 2
		All along the Congo, rubber, banana and coffee plantations stood deserted.
		Under a ten-year plan begun in 1950, the Congo acquired vital roads, schools, hospitals—and a national debt of $900 million (more than half of it owed to Belgium).
		Belgium had planned to cede to the Congo $800 million stockholdings in the sprawling Union Miniere trust.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,869737-2,00.html (657 words)

	American Museum of Natural History Publications
		A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo expedition : with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps / By J. Bequaert.
		A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo expedition, with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps.
		Specimens from the Congo Expedition collected by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin.
	diglib1.amnh.org /bulletins/congo/BUL39a1.html (867 words)

	American Museum of Natural History Publications
		Isopods collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition / by Willard G. Van Name.
		Scientific results of the American Museum Congo Expedition.
		Scientific results of the A merican Museum Congo Expedition.
	diglib1.amnh.org /bulletins/congo/BUL43a5.html (374 words)

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	AllRefer.com - Congo, river, Africa : Course, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Congo, river, Africa : Course, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Between Bolobo and Kwamouth the Congo narrows in width to between 1 mi and 1 1/2 mi (1.6–2.4 km) but, c.350 mi (560 km) from its mouth, widens to form lakelike Pool Malebo, on which Kinshasa and Brazzaville are located.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Congo, river, Africa
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Congo-course.html (477 words)

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