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	Kinshasa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Kinshasa is a city of sharp contrasts, with affluent residential and commercial areas, three universities, and sprawling slums coexisting side by side.
		Kinshasa had the earliest documented HIV-1 infection, which dates from 1959 and was discovered in the preserved blood sample of a local man (see AIDS origin).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinshasa (944 words)

	Kinshasa: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Kinshasa, with a population of about 4.5 million, is also one of the largest...
		Kinshasa, with a population of about 4.5 million, is also one of the largest cities in sub-Saharan Africa.
		Kinshasa suffered greatly due to Mobutu’s excesses and the civil war that led to his downfall.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ki/Kinshasa.html (566 words)

	Kinshasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kinshasa liegt am Kongo-Fluss direkt gegenüber von Brazzaville, der Hauptstadt der Republik Kongo.
		Kinshasa wurde 1881 von Henry Stanley als Handelsposten gegründet und Léopoldville zu Ehren des damaligen Königs Léopold II von Belgien genannt.
		Kinshasa ist auch eine Industriestadt, die die Güter aus dem Landesinnern verarbeitet.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/de/wikipedia/k/ki/kinshasa.html (108 words)

	Kinshasa: Beyond Dichotomies
		Kinshasa is a huge city including the "Ville" and the "Cite." It has one main impressive street dominating the centre, the Boulevard du 30 juin or the Champs-Elysees of Africa.
		The have-nots of urban and suburban Kinshasa have ceased to be passive beings.
		The issue for the urban dweller in Kinshasa is to be able to reach a balance between the satisfaction of his needs "to have" and "to be." To reach his goal the city-dweller has to kill the false man and woman he or she has been so far.
	i-p-o.org /kinshasa.htm (7912 words)

	Kinshasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kinshasa is located along the southern bank of the Congo River, directly opposite the city of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo.
		It was founded as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881 and named Léopoldville in honor of King Léopold II of Belgium, who ruled the vast territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Nevertheless, it is still a major cultural and intellectual center (by Central African standards), with a flourishing community of musicians and artists.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Kinshasa.html (430 words)

	Kinshasa - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Major industries are food and beverage processing, tanning, construction, ship repairing, and the manufacture of chemicals, mineral oils, textiles, and cement, but the city's economic life collapsed in the 1990s as a result of the political turmoil in the country.
		A transportation hub, Kinshasa is the terminus of the railroad from Matadi and of navigation on the Congo River from Kisangani; the international airport is a major link for African air traffic with Europe and the Americas.
		Modern Kinshasa is an educational and cultural center and is the seat of Lovanium Univ. of Kinshasa (1954), which has an archaeological museum, the National School of Law and Administration, a telecommunications school, a research center for tropical medicine, and a museum of Africana.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-kinshasa.html (479 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. relations with Kinshasa cooled, as Mobutu was no longer deemed a necessary Cold War ally, and his opponents within Zaire stepped up demands for reform.
		That was the origin of a two-day fight between the two factions from August 20, 2006 in the streets of the capital, Kinshasa.
		Kinshasa and Brazzaville are actually on opposite sides of the river at the Pool (see NASA image), then the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in deep canyons (collectively known as the Livingstone Falls), and then running past Boma into the Atlantic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (5727 words)

	Wort des Tages vom 04.08.2006: Kinshasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kinshasa - Ein Uno-Vertreter, der nicht namentlich genannt werden wollte, bemängelte, dass die 62 Zentren zur Erfassung der Ergebnisse in dem zentralafrikanischen Land schlecht organisiert seien.
		Kinshasa - Internationale Beobachter bemängelten, dass die 62 Sammelzentren zur Erfassung der Ergebnisse zu schlecht organisiert seien.
		Er zeigt, wie sie sich in der Hauptstadt Kinshasa einrichtet, welche Aufgaben sie übernimmt.
	wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de /wort-des-tages/2006/08/04/Kinshasa.html (377 words)

	SN Brussels Airlines - Kinshasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kinshasa is a city with modern shops and restaurants, but it is known above all as the birthplace of African music.
		It is one of Africa’s biggest cities and is the administrative, economic and cultural centre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Living in Kinshasa is a special experience, since the city is surrounded by countryside full of tropical rainforest and endangered species of animals.
	www.flysn.com /com/promos-destinations/destinations/africa/democraticrepubliccongo/kinshasa.aspx (324 words)

	PC(USA) - Worldwide Ministries: Congo - The Presbyterian Community of Kinshasa (CPK)
		The Kinshasa Urban Clinics are part of the government's plan entitled "Health for all." This plan enhances a program that is centrally coordinated by the Congolese government, but predominantly it is implemented and managed by church groups.
		In 1997 Kinshasa experienced an influx of refugees fleeing the capital of the neighboring Congo Republic, Brazzaville, after the outbreak of a bloody civil war.
		Although the population of Kinshasa itself was still recovering from a rebellion that finished just months before, the women of the CPK responded on several occasions to the needs of these refugees by offering money, food, clothes and other necessities.
	www.pcusa.org /worldwide/congo/cpk.htm (1930 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Kinshasa and Brazzaville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The smaller city is Brazzaville on the north side of the river, and Kinshasa on the south side.
		Kinshasa’s population has more than doubled in 20 years—2.7 million in 1984 and 6.8 million in 2004.
		Kinshasa is thus now far larger than the entire Congo-Brazzaville republic, which has a population of almost 3 million.
	earth.jsc.nasa.gov /EarthObservatory/KinshasaandBrazzaville.htm (404 words)

	Congo (Kinshasa): Peace Update
		In Kinshasa, hardliners are back in control of the government, opposing any dialogue with anti-government rebels until there is a total military withdrawal of all foreign forces.
		After the question of his being unilingual was raised, and the former president sollicited the president of Gabon to organize the inter-Congolese dialogue at Libreville, Masire seems to have accepted the proposal of a joint facilitation with Omar Bongo.
		Kinshasa's civil society continues to be the target of security forces.
	www.africaaction.org /docs01/conk0104.htm (2137 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Kinshas Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A vice-president in the transitional government, Azarias Ruberwa, described talks with militia groups in Kinshasa as "a last chance meeting for peace." "The country is counting on you to back the transition process," he said in a speech opening the meeting on Monday May 10th 2004.
		A narrow corridor, following the lower course of the river, reaches westwards from the capital Kinshasa to the Atlantic Ocean, where Zaire has a short coastline of 40 km [25miles] and a port on the Zaire estuary at Matadi.
		The Congo became “Zaire” Leopoldville became Kinshasa, and citizens were required to drop their [European] Christian names.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Africa/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo/Kinshasa (927 words)

	Wort des Tages vom 07.07.2006: Kinshasa
		Aber schon Kinshasa ist eine Stadt ohne Strukturen und ohne öffentliche Ordnung, wie man sie in Europa kennt.
		Kinshasa ist einfach zu groß, als daß das auf einem Flugplatz in der Innenstadt stationierte europäische Kontingent auch nur zwei Stadtviertel weiter auffallen würde.
		Bundesverteidigungsminister Franz Josef Jung (CDU) hatte die deutschen Vorauskommandos in Kinshasa und Libreville Anfang der Woche besucht.
	wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de /wort-des-tages/2006/07/07/Kinshasa.html (230 words)

	CNN - Kabila returns to Kinshasa, predicts victory - August 25, 1998
		KINSHASA, Congo (CNN)-- A relative calm returned to Kinshasa along with President Laurent Kabila as government troops aided by Angolan and Zimbabwean troops launched offenses against rebels.
		Speaking at Kinshasa's airport, a confident Kabila said the outcome of the war is obvious to him.
		Fighting continued on the outskirts of Kinshasa and escalated in many parts of the country, as neighboring Angola and Zimbabwe came to the rescue of Kabila's government.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9808/25/congo.03 (936 words)

	CNN - Gunfire rattles downtown Kinshasa - August 27, 1998
		KINSHASA, Congo (CNN) -- The capital of Congo awoke uneasily on Thursday after gunfire erupted in a pre-dawn clash.
		Wednesday's fighting centered around Kinshasa's airport, near the Kingasani and Kinbanseke districts, suburbs 12 miles (20 kilometers) to the east.
		A meeting scheduled between Kabila and four African peace envoys in Kinshasa was canceled Wednesday due to the fighting, as was a planned meeting between Congo's foreign minister and ambassadors.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9808/27/congo.01/index.html (814 words)

	Voters registration ends in Kinshasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		KINSHASA, 2 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - The Independent Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo has said 2.9 million people in Kinshasa, the capital, had signed up to vote in the 2006 elections by the time registration centres closed on Sunday.
		Registration started in Kinshasa on 20 June and spread to the provinces of Orientale, in the northeast, and Bas-Congo in the west, on 25 July.
		"Kinshasa has at least eight million people and 65 percent of them are aged between 18 and 45 years," Valentin Mubake, a UPDS official, said.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=48408 (272 words)

	Afrol Congo Kinshasa Index Page: Links to Congo Kinshasa
		You might want to go directly to their Africa page or Congo Kinshasa page, were the last articles from WP are listed.
		Congo Kinshasa Economic Development and Indicators is an annual NewAfrica country profile on their pages about African economy.
		On their Congo Kinshasa Page you'll find country background information and facts (overviews) for the traveler (money and costs, when to go, attractions, activities, getting there, getting around, etc.), if there's not a travel warning.
	www.afrol.com /Index/countries/drcindex.htm (2382 words)

	Welcome to the Kinshasa Home Website
		The Kinshasa Children's Home is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa.
		Kinshasa Children's Home is that place and we welcome you in to see God at work.
		As a result of the many years of conflict, war and waves of refugees descending on Kinshasa, the orphan problem is very large and presently out of control.
	www.africanorphans.com /congo/index.htm (246 words)

	Wort des Tages vom 10.05.2003: Kinshasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Theoretisch sollte die Stadt wieder unter die Verwaltung der nationalen Regierung in Kinshasa fallen, doch praktisch ist sie ohne Ordnungsmacht.
		Auf dem Flug von Kinshasa nach Lubumbashi musste die Il-76 auf rund 2200 Metern Höhe schon nahe ihrer Reisegeschwindigkeit gewesen sein, als die Panne offenbar nach 40 Minuten auftrat.
		Auf dem Flug von der Hauptstadt Kinshasa nach Lubumbashi musste die Il-76 auf knapp 2200 Metern Höhe schon nahe ihrer Reisegeschwindigkeit gewesen sein, als die Panne auftrat.
	www.wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de /wort-des-tages/2003/05/10/Kinshasa.html (357 words)

	Kinshasa travel guide - Wikitravel
		Kinshasa is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Kinshasa's infrastructure is largely dysfunctional; electricity is reliable only in Gombe (the city center where most expats live) with other parts of the city experiencing power outages several times weekly.
		The Kinshasa airport used to have a terrible reputation for corrupt officials asking for bribes.
	wikitravel.org /en/Kinshasa (774 words)

	Congo (Kinshasa) (10/06)
		Legislative--A transitional parliament, consisting of approximately 500 members, is based in Kinshasa; members are appointed by signatories to the December 17, 2002 all-inclusive agreement.
		The largest state-run universities are the University of Kinshasa, the University of Lubumbashi, and the University of Kisangani.
		This crisis was exclusively confined to central Kinshasa in the Gombe area and was essentially a clash between Vice President Jean- Pierre Bemba and President Joseph Kabila’s militias.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2823.htm (4588 words)

	Kim Gjerstad in Congo - Home
		Kinshasa is sweltering again, the “frigoristes”, the air conditioner guys, are getting their jobs back.
		Kinshasa’s main throughway, the infamous Boulevard 30 Juin, was peaceful.
		Otherwise, this blog has proven that traditional ways of communicating (Kinshasa's post office) are still alive and well in DR Congo.
	kim.uing.net (3331 words)

	Pax Christi International > Members > Africa > Chr
		Chrétiens pour la Paix (CPP) Kinshasa is an association of Christians, principally from the St. Ignace Parish of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, who attempt to live the values of the Pax Christi movement - prayer-study-action - in the specific situation of their homes and communities.
		Today, the communities of Kinshasa represent a threat, rather than a contribution, to peace and the realisation of the dignity of the human person.
		For CPP Kinshasa, awareness of this challenge has become an imperative to engage in dialogue and studies about the social environment of our civil society.
	www.paxchristi.net /members/html/africa_overview.php?mo_id=58&mo_name=Chr (206 words)

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