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  Zaire National Parks :: Africa National Parks, Wild Life Centuries and Reserves
The Republic of Zaire, formerly the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the third-largest country in Africa.
The Congo or Zaire River, the tenth longest river in the world, winds 2880 miles through the Zaire basin, the world's second-largest drainage basin (the Amazon is the largest), and finally empties into the Atlantic ocean.
This province is situ­ated along the western borders of Rwanda and Uganda in the region of the great lakes: Lakes Tanganyika, Kivu, Edward (Idi Amin), and Mobutu (Albert).
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 Zaire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zaire (spelled Zaïre in French) was the name of the Second Republic of Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1971 and 1997.
Although it came into use in 1971, the name Zaire is often still used for the portion of the Congo controlled by Mobutu since 1965.
Embarking on a campaign of cultural awareness, Mobutu renamed the country the Republic of Zaire.
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 MAR | Data | Chronology for Cabinda in Angola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The people of Cabinda province continue to be involved in a separate struggle against the MPLA government for the independence of Cabinda.
In Cuanza Norte province on 28 February the UNITA Armed Forces Command denied government claims that UNITA was deploying forces to raid Golungo Alto and Lucala and declared they strictly adhering to the Lusaka Peace Accord.
UNITA Secretariat in Cabinda Province was worried about the deployment of more government military forces near areas vacated by UNITA military forces, who were confined in Ntoco, Zaire Province.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=54003   (3249 words)

  
 Africa Update Archives
It reduces Zaire's capacity to compete in the international economy, in which increasingly only hard work pays off as shown by Asian and other countries, or to compete equally and confidently with other countries for whatever be nefit can be derived from direct relations (and not by the intermediary of France) with the world superpower.
Mostly, the ethnic Mukongo from th e mineral - rich southern province of Katanga; the Batetela ethnic group from the central Kasai region; the Mukongo from the coastal Bas Zaire province; and the ethnic Tutsis in eastern Zaire.
Kabila announced in November 1996 from the eastern Zaire that the raid was p rimarily to oust Mobutu and was the dawn of a new era of guerrilla warfare armed at effecting the change many Zaireans had been yearning and craving for.
www.ccsu.edu /afstudy/upd4-4.html   (6381 words)

  
 NATIONAL PRIVATE INVESTMENT AGENCY
The river Congo runs along the frontier between this province in northern Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which separates the enclave of Cabinda from the rest of Angola.
To the east, the province of Zaire is flanked by Uíge, to the south, by Bengo and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
The province of Zaire used to be part of the Kongo Kingdom.
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 zaire - OneLook Dictionary Search
Zaire : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include zaire: capital of zaire, air zaire, new zaire, zaire clawless otter, zaire democratic republic of the, more...
Words similar to zaire: belgian congo, democratic republic of the congo, more...
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 Zaire 1975-1978 KH
The Zaire government, on the other hand, in 1974, took over most small businesses and plantations without compensating the owners, and divided the spoils among political leaders loyal to Mobutu, which went well beyond anything the MPLA did.
His moderate response to the events in Zaire the previous year had contributed to this reputation, particularly amongst the hard-line anti-communists in the United States and amongst some of the European and African nations which had come to Mobutu's aid.
Thus it was, in the middle of May 1978, when the Lunda again left Angola and invaded their home province in Zaire, that the Carter administration was once again drawn into the conflict, for reasons no more compelling than in the year before...
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 AI REPORT 1997: Angola (the Republic of)
Evidence of killings carried out in previous years came to light in July in Soyo, Zaire province, when a mine clearance team discovered the remains of at least 60 people, apparently victims of deliberate and arbitrary killings.
In Uige province in June, a man was severely beaten for trying to stop a unita soldier raping his wife.
Costa Afonso Rangel, a government municipal official in Bocoio, Benguela province, was allegedly beaten on the head with an iron bar in January by unita soldiers whom he had accused of stealing cattle.
www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar97/AFR12.htm   (1824 words)

  
 Embassy of Angola UK - Press Office, Newsletter No. 114 - April 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
There were daily reports from the provinces affected, where local officials assessed the medicines and hospital beds available and stepped up work to increase public awareness of preventive measures to be taken to stop the spread of cholera.
In the central highland province of Huambo, this included housing for teachers in Alto Hama and an agency of the Banco Sol, while the foundation stone of a mineral water bottle filling plant was laid.
In Lubango, capital of the southern province of Huíla, six secondary school classrooms were opened in the premises of the support battalion of the general staff of the Angolan Armed Forces, FAA.
www.angola.org.uk /newsletter114.htm   (5879 words)

  
 Combined Arms Research Library
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas P. Odom's study, Shaba II The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978, presents a historical analysis of the 1978 invasion of Shaba province by the exiled Katangan Gendarmerie.
Zaire's Western backers were left holding loans that would require drastic rescheduling to keep the country from collapsing.
Zaire seemed doomed to economic ruin, and "Citizen Mobutu" appeared determined to alienate all who might be willing to rescue the country from itself.
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April 1990: - Army and security units deploy in Zaire's capital Kinshasa to prevent a demonstration by the opposition "Union for Democracy and Social Progress." Among the Union's demands are an end to corruption and the resignation of President Mobutu Sese Seko.
January 1994: - Fighting continues in the Kivu and Eastern provinces of Zaire between government and rebel forces, causing a new flood of refugees to flee to Uganda.
January 1996: - Renewed fighting is reported in the Kivu province of Zaire between the indigenous Hunde tribe and Banyarwandans.
www.usc.edu /dept/LAS/ir/cis/cews/database/Zaire/zaire.doc   (3415 words)

  
 INFO-MINE - AMERICA MINERAL FIELDS INC. PRESS RELEASE - November 7/96
Mining and metals analysts said the fighting in Zaire's eastern refugee zone between Zairean troops and ethnic Tutsi Banyamulenge rebels was far removed from the main copper and cobalt areas in the southern copperbelt in Shaba province.
"Zaire has to all intents and purposes broken up some time ago into separate provinces and the copper province, Shaba, is pretty much isolated from what is going on in the rest of the country," said Johannesburg investment analyst John Clemmow.
Zaire has a large proportion of the world's cobalt reserves, about 28 percent, and the country's copper reserves are the sixth-largest in the world.
www.infomine.com /press_releases/amz/pr110796amz.html   (628 words)

  
 Angola Provinces
Angola was an overseas province of Portugal until its independence on 1975-11-11.
According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Angola is divided into five districts: four on the coast, the fifth, Lunda, wholly inland, being the N.E. part of the province.
The coast divisions of Angola are Congo on the N. (from the river Congo to the river Loje),...
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 Zaire (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zaire is one of the 18 provinces of Angola.
It occupies 40,130 square kilometres in the north west of the country and has a population of approximately 600,000.
M'Banza Kongo is the capital of the province.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zaire_Province   (79 words)

  
 Zaire Province - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
History and analysis of the relationship between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and several independent churches in the Kasai Province of Zaire, 1972-1985
Some characteristics of the maize market in Shaba Province, Zaire: A brief analysis of the maize market in Shaba Province, Zaire, and its implications...
Internally displaced and war-affected civilians in South Kivu Province, Congo/Zaire: An analysis of humanitarian and political issues (Issue brief / U.S. Committee for Refugees)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /zaire_province.htm   (221 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics (1993)
Zaire is located directly on the equator in the central part of the African continent.
Matadi, in the Zaire delta (formerly the Congo), is the major port for exports.
In Zaire, austerity measures arising from the economic adjustment programs of recent years have lead to chronic problems for DLAENCT: inadequate funding and staffing, delinking of budget allocations from the amount of revenue generated from forestry activities, and a narrow and short-term view of forest resource exploitation.
www.nap.edu /books/0309047498/html/625.html   (4763 words)

  
 Restaurants in Zaire Restaurant Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Charting the path of the deadly Zaire strain of Ebola virus (ZEBOV...News-Medical.net, World - Oct 25, 2005Over the past ten years, separate outbreaks of the deadly Zaire strain of Ebola virus (ZEBOV) have killed hundreds of humans and tens of thousands of great...
Fighting: Updating Seminar In Zaire ProvinceAngolaPress, Angola - Oct 20, 2005Luanda, 10/20 - An updated course on international rules for referees of fighting modaltities will take place on Friday in Angola`s northern Zaire province, in...
Zaire: Opposition UNITA Party Trains Electoral SupervisorsAngolaPress, Angola - Oct 11, 2005M`Banza-Kongo, 10/11 - The provincial secretary of the country`s main opposition UNITA party in northern Zaire province, João Marques Ntiama, said today here...
www.diningguide411.com /restaurants/Zaire   (301 words)

  
 Annex 1. Results of Surveys Quoted
This survey was conducted by MSF-H in Soyo, Zaire Province in Angola in May 1995.
This survey was conducted by AICF in Cafunfo, Lunda None Province in Angola from 30 April - 4 May 1995.
This survey was conducted by the ministry of Health in Namacurra District of Zambezia Province from 3-7 April 1995.
www.unsystem.org /scn/archives/rnis11/ch7.htm   (977 words)

  
 Zaire - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The River Zaire, formerly the Congo, is the second longest in Africa at 4,670 kilometres / 2,900 miles and rises in the south eastern region where it is called the Lualaba.
Moise Tshombe the governor of what was then Katanga Province declared the secession of his province, Lumumba demanded help from the United Nations, but he was then dismissed by the president Joseph Kasavubu, with assistance from the army commander Mobutu.
As a consequence of UN intervention, the Katangan secession was crushed and Kasavubu was faced with armed insurgency.
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 Angola - NATIONAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
In retaliation, in 1977 and 1979 Luanda allowed Katangan dissidents based in Angola to invade Zaire's Shaba Province (formerly Katanga Province), from which they were repelled only after the intervention of Egyptian, Moroccan, French, and Belgian forces (see Angola as a Refuge, this ch.).
Having apparently evened their scores, Angola and Zaire normalized relations in 1978, and the two erstwhile antagonists entered into a nonaggression pact with Zambia in 1979.
Whereas Zaire had limited itself to using its strategic location to support insurgencies against the Angolan government, Pretoria had the means to sponsor guerrilla resistance and to wage protracted war.
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 Angolan Embassy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The alter is from Italy and comprised of oriental marble sculpted with symbolic figures.
She kept the slaves on the ground floor, had her offices on the first floor and her home on the top floor.
45 - Palace of the District of Ambriz (Province of Zaire)
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 Permanent Mission of Angola to the United Nations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The provincial governor of Bengo is Jorge Inocêncio Dombolo, the governor of Kwanza Norte Henrique André Júnior and the vice-governor of Zaire José Simão Helena.
BP Angola is to start production in the first quarter of 2007, when Block 18 in Zaire Province is expected to have an output of 500,000 barrels of oil a day, making millions of dollars of revenue for the state.
This was announced in Huambo by Augusto Bogalho, spokesman of the FAS board of directors, during a meeting of the board held on 5 and 6 October attended by provincial directors and deputy directors.
www.un.int /angola/newsletter08.htm   (6401 words)

  
 Marburg haemorrhagic fever, Angola - 205 cases, 180 deaths, 6 cases in Zaire Province
Zaire Province has reported its first 6 cases, bringing the number of affected provinces to seven, all concentrated in the north-western part of the country.
WHO staff in Uige were notified today of several fatalities but teams were unable to investigate the cause of death or collect the bodies for safe burial.
To reduce the risk of transmission in the community, priority activities include intensive social mobilization and health education in the towns and villages of Uige Province.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=22575&nfid=rssfeeds   (646 words)

  
 CABINDA WAR
Zaire made a naked grab for ownership of the oil-producing region.
Zaire launched its attack at the outset of rainy season, hoping to solidify its hold on the region and to begin receiving income from oil production before Angola could rally its forces and bring them to bear.
However, the attacks along the Congo River, where Zaire thought the main attack would come, are only strong enough to fix the strong Zairi forces there in place.
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 Anglican Communion:Province de L'Eglise Anglicane Du Congo
Ugandan evangelist Apolo Kivebulaya established the Anglican presence in Zaire in 1896.
Following independence, the Church expanded and formed dioceses as part of the Province of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and Boa-Zaire.
The new Province was inaugurated in 1992 and changed its name in 1997.
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 Angola - Lunda-Chokwe
As the hyphenation implies, the category comprises at least two subsets, the origins of which are known to be different and the events leading to their inclusion in a single set are recent.
As a consequence of this Chokwe activity, a mixed population emerged in parts of Zaire as well as in Angola, although there were virtually homogenous communities in both countries consisting of Chokwe, Ruund, or Southern Lunda.
In the 1980s, these rebels and perhaps still other refugees remained in Angola, many in Lunda Sul Province, although the Angolan government as part of its rapprochement with Zaire was encouraging them to return to their traditional homes.
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 Africa
Most of the fighting was confined to the Lunda provinces but attacks were also made on UNITA positions in Bié, and later in Soyo (Zaïre province) and Huíla. The fighting diminished in mid-June but did not cease until the end of the month.
U.N. and observer pressure on the government stopped the government from redeploying its rapid reaction police, but paramilitary training of other police units-such as how to use machine-guns was observed by the U.N. indicating that the government might be attempting to prepare civilian police for tasks not compatible with their normal job description.
The civil war in neighboring Zaire was a significant factor in the power struggle in Angola.
www.hrw.org /worldreport/Africa-01.htm   (4071 words)

  
 International Spotlight: Angola
Zaire Governor Ludy Kissassunda is confident that Girassol will increase the region's international exposure.
The fact that the province borders the Democratic Republic of Congo also made it vulnerable to attack from UNITA during the 1990s.
When the Portuguese colonized Angola, they overlooked Zaire province because it was so remote from the country's major cities.
washingtonpost.com /wp-adv/specialsales/spotlight/angola/article4.html   (1068 words)

  
 Angola: Peace Monitor, II, 5
The confinement of troops restarted on 17 January at the Tchikala-Tcholohanga assembly areas (formerly Vila Nova) in the central Huambo province.
Military actions continue Following the military clashes in Zaire Province in December, many areas of the country have seen a reduction in tensions, whilst military action has continued in others.
Government protests over Zaire flights The Government of Angola has increased its protests over the continuing use of Zaire as a conduit for the movement of military men and materials.
www.africaaction.org /docs96/ang9601.htm   (1794 words)

  
 Angola: Peace Monitor II, 4
The Joint Commission described the situation as "serious, inappropriate and to be condemned." On 5 December the Joint Commission sent a commission to Zaire Province to investigate the incidents.
ANGOP, the official Angolan News Agency, reported that the regional commander of UNAVEM III warned in late October that the quartering proces in Uige Province could be delayed owing to the poor participation of UNITA.
Hostile demonstrations were held at the UNAVEM III regional headquarters in Uige and, in a Government-controlled radio programme, the population of the province was urged to 'prepare for war' against UNAVEM III.
www.africaaction.org /docs95/ang9512.2.htm   (2030 words)

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