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	Serebella Contents Yukuhashi, Fukuoka---Zaire River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A large stream of water that alters the nearby landscape.
		Occassionally rivers overflow their banks and cause a flood.
		A submarine river or current is a river which flows under the surface of an ocean.
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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.
		The country was thus renamed the Republic of Zaire.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zaire (846 words)

	Zaire - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Zaire was the name of the Second Republic of Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1971 and 1997.
		Zaire also referred to the Zaire River, another name for the Congo River, when the country was called Zaire.
		Zaire, written in 1732, is also a tragedy by the French playwright/philosopher/poet Voltaire.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /zaire.htm (386 words)

	zaire river (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kinshasa and Brazzaville are on opposite sides of the river at the Pool, then the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in deep canyons, running by Matadi and Boma, and into the sea at the small town of Muanda.
		Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to navigate along the river's length and report that the Lualaba was not a source of the Nile as had been suggested.
		Nearly the entire Congo is readily navigable, and railways bypass the three major falls, and much of the trade of central Africa passes along it, including copper, palm oil (as kernels), sugar, coffee, and cotton.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Zaire_River (374 words)

	Encyclopedia: ZaÃ¯re (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Zaire is also the name of a province of Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.
		Zaire also referred to the Image of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, taken by NASA; the Congo River is visible in the center of the photograph Length 4,380 km Elevation of the source m Average discharge 41,800 mÂ³/s Area watershed 3,680,000 kmÂ² Origin Mouth Atlantic Ocean Basin countries Dem.
		Zaire River, another name for the Congo River, when the country was called Zaire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Za%EFre (1891 words)

	ZAIRE NTDB OVERSEAS BUSINESS REPORTS access provided by UM-St. Louis Libraries
		Zaire is the world's leading producer of cobalt, the second largest producer of industrial diamonds, and the sixth largest producer of copper.
		River transport is based upon the use of the Zaire and Kasai Rivers and their tributaries, which together provide 8,000 kilometers of navigable waterways for 70 inland ports.
		The climate in Zaire is tropical and humid.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/obr/obr_0023.htm (15441 words)

	DRC Congo
		The heart of the African tropics, DR Congo/Zaïre, the Amazonian of Africa, is covered with endless rainforest, mountains, volcanoes, enormous rivers and abundant wildlife.
		The Congo River is the second longest river in Africa.
		The river is Africa's great artery to Zaïre and the Congo and is the main "road" to the interior.
	us-africa.tripod.com /zaire.html (3201 words)

	LIVING SOCIALISM: The experience of the eighties - NI 153 - Country profile: Zaire
		And although Zaire’s main export (copper) is no longer as highly sought after, this is still a rich country: there is cobalt (used to make steel) and industrial diamonds as well as a range of food and cash crops.
		But the West’s influence on Zaire is not limited to TV, it is usually true to say that the country has either just completed negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, or is just about to begin talks to re-schedule its debt repayments.
		Zaire also has one of the world’s worst human rights records with over 100 opponents of Mobutu and his People’s Movement for the Revolution either imprisoned or banished to rural areas.
	www.newint.org /issue153/profile.htm (502 words)

	Encyclopedia: Zaire River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The river also has the second-largest flow in the world, behind the Amazon, and the second-largest watershed of any river, again trailing the Amazon and slightly ahead of the Mississippi.
		Kinshasa and Brazzaville are on opposite sides of the river at the Pool, then the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in deep canyons (collectively known as the Livingstone Falls), running by Matadi and Boma, and into the sea at the small town of Muanda.
		The river is also potentially valuable for hydroelectric power, and the Inga facility below Pool Malebo is the first to exploit the river.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zaire-River (484 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Life And Death In The Congo - Thomas M. Callaghy
		Zaire's free fall was generated not by one man but thousands of compliant collaborators, at home and abroad.
		According to Wrong, Zaire developed a "sick relationship" with the IMF and the World Bank, one characterized by the "breathtaking naivete" of Bretton Woods officials, by their "insidious" need to push loans on the country, and by their inability to insist on better governance in return.
		Zaire's dictator was an expert at the ritual dances of reform, and, according to Wrong, Bretton Woods officials seemed happy to play along.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20010901fareviewessay5576/thomas-m-callaghy/life-and-death-in-the-congo.html (2974 words)

	SCOPE 42 - Biogeochemistry of Major World Rivers, Chapter 6, Biogeochemistry of Major African Rivers: Carbon and ...
		Accordingly, the African rivers belong to two types: (1) tropical forest as in the case of the Zaïre; and (2) tropical savannah as in the case of the Niger, Nile and Orange.
		The humid periods of 1930 and 1960, which have affected the rivers of the northern hemisphere, are opposed to a dry period in rivers of the southern hemisphere.
		In addition, the river transports are influenced by anthropogenic activities and, particularly, by dam constructions which modify the hydrological regimes of rivers, trap a great quantity of river suspended sediments and increase river water salinity.
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		Congo -> Course The second longest river of Africa and one of the longest in the world, the Congo River drains c.1,425,000 sq mi (3,690,750 sq km) including all of Congo (Kinshasa) and parts of Congo (Brazzaville), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.
		It became known as the Zaïre River (a corruption of the local name Mzadi meaning great water) and was later referred to as the Congo River (for the Kongo kingdom located near its mouth); it was called Zaïre River by the government o...
		Tributaries of the Congo and Ubangi rivers, which separate the Congo from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, flow through the country.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=%22Congo%22 (610 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		The Communication alleges the torture of 15 persons by a Military Unit, on or about 19 January 1989, at Kinsuka near the Zaire River. On 19 April 1989 when several people protested their treatment, they were detained and held indefinitely.
		Ordinary Session in Banjul, the African Commission was seized of the communication and decided to notify the State of Zaire of the complaint and invite its written comments on the admissibility.
		Since the Government of Zaire does not wish to participate in a dialogue, the Commission must, regrettably, continue its consideration of the case on the basis of facts and opinions submitted by the complainants alone.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/africa/comcases/25-89_47-90_56-91_100-93.html (1337 words)

	Mobutu
		Mobutu, who seized power in a military coup in 1965, has never been elected to the presidency, and Zaire is the only country in Central Africa not to have organized national elections since a wave of democratization swept much of Africa in the early 1990s.
		Officially, the president of Zaire, who arrived at the villa on Monday and declined to be interviewed, is convalescing from surgery for prostate cancer that he underwent in Switzerland in August.
		By HOWARD W. KINSHASA, Zaire -- There is a story making the rounds these days among this city's political class that President Mobutu Sese Seko, watching recently from his sickbed in Switzerland as tensions between his country and neighboring Rwanda grew, blocked the shipment of heavy weapons to the border region.
	www.edlis.org /twice/threads/mobutu.html (3053 words)

	Visiting a Village on the Zaire River
		It was pitch fl except for the starlight, the glow of burning cigarettes, and the occasional light they flashed on the banks of the river.
		These are new in the river since the 1950s, and are a major hazard for motorboats.
		We swam in the river to cool off while it was being "fixed." It ran intermittently all afternoon.
	www.susancanthony.com /AboutSusan/Zaire_River.html (1398 words)

	Living With Basenjis in Zaire
		Ann traveled all over Zaire, but a lot of her time was spent residing at Mikwi in the Bandundu region of Zaire about 480 miles Northeast of the coastal capital of Kinshasa.
		The barter system was in great use in Zaire, and Ann got the six Basenjis that lived with her by trading her goats for them in the neighboring villages.
		Bounded on the west by Congo and Angola; Zaire is bordered on the south by Zambia; on the east by Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda; and on the north by Sudan and the Central African Republic.
	www.basenji.org /african/zaire.htm (3726 words)

	Creating a Natural Zaire River Tank, by Dave Ball
		The Republic of the Congo is no longer, now it is the Republic of Zaire, and the Congo River changed to the Zaire River.
		I'm trying to simulate a slow moving river with this tank, and water is ever changing in a river.
		Most of the plants that were selected for this tank are indigenous to West African rivers, the ones from South America are varieties of sword plants that just happened to be small enough for the foreground.
	www.aquarticles.com /articles/management/Ball_Zaire_River.html (2036 words)

	Zaire
		The dominant physiographic feature of the country is the basin of the Zaire River, also known as the Zaire River.
		The Ubangi River, chief northern tributary of the Zaire, rises on the northwestern slopes of this range.
		Both the Zaire River Basin and the mountain regions are traversed by numerous rivers, the valleys of which are covered with dense vegetation.
	www.afroyonda.info /country/zaire.html (496 words)

	CONVERGENT CATASTROPHIES IN CENTRAL AFRICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To justify their occupation of parts of eastern Zaire, the government of Rwanda has advanced claims that large parts of eastern Zaire were formerly part of the Rwandan kingdom.
		Several hundred thousand people in refugee camps in eastern Zaire have been under attack and have fled for their lives: 80% are women and children; 50% are under the age of 15.
		One is the systematic and long-term discrimination of the Zaire state against Rwandan-speaking Zaireans--and especially the threats directed against the Banyamulenge, in southern Kivu, whose homes were west of Uvira, on Lake Tanganyika.
	www.udayton.edu /~rwanda/articles/newbury96.html (1692 words)

	ZAIRE -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The republic of Zaire is located in central Africa with a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean.
		The Congo River, also known as the Zaire, with its tributaries drains more than 1,600,000 square miles (4,100,000 square kilometers) in the heart of tropical Africa.
		One of the major rivers of Central Africa, the Ubangi is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo, or Zaire, River.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9112893&query=Zaire&ct= (759 words)

	Mobutu emerges to show world he still has reign over country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) - ''My name is Mobutu.'' With those words, a smiling but tired-looking President Mobutu Sese Seko emerged from seclusion Sunday, trying to prove to the world that he still rules Zaire.
		Wearing his signature leopard-skin cap and waving a wooden cane, Mobutu walked slowly out of his residence on the Zaire River in his first public appearance since returning home Friday to face the rebellion that has been ravaging his country.
		Mobutu's residence is on the Zaire River opposite Brazzaville, Congo, where the first wave of U.S. soldiers arrived Sunday to prepare for the possible evacuation of Americans from Zaire.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/032497/mobutu.htm (313 words)

	Search Results for "Zaire"
		Zaire (Congo) 1959 Belgium was forced to abandon its slow pace of reform by the popular mobilization in Congo; it moved toward immediate independence.
		...Congo, Democratic Republic of the, formerly Zaire (zi´er, zaer´) (KEY), republic (1995 est.
		...Congo, river, Africa, (kong´go) (KEY) or Zaire (zi´er, zaer´) (KEY), great river of equatorial Africa, c.2,720 mi (4,380 km) long, formed by the waters of the Lualaba...
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	U.S. troops arrive for Zaire evacuations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A C-17 transport plane carrying equipment and the first planning and communications specialists based in northern Italy landed at midday in Brazzaville, just across the Zaire River from the Zairian capital, Kinshasa.
		Edwin P. Smith, commander of rapid reaction forces for southern Europe who is leading the Americans in Congo, said no evacuation was being ordered at the moment because the situation in Kinshasa was calm.
		The U.S. Navy on Saturday dispatched the USS Nassau, an amphibious warfare ship with 1,000 Marines, from the Adriatic to a position off Zaire in case Americans would need to be evacuated.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/032497/ustroops.htm (299 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It is bound by the Republic of Congo and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola to the southwest, Zambia to the southeast, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda to the east, Sudan to the northeast and the Central African Republic to the north and northwest.
		The principal river is the Zaire which flows into the Atlantic Ocean and nearly drains the entire country.
		CLIMATE: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) is crossed by the Equator and the seasons are reversed in the north and south.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/DemRepCongo.htm (1712 words)

	THE AMAZON: NI 219 - Country profile: Zaire
		For Africa’s third largest country, riddled by a network of rivers, with a rainforest the size of Europe, and over 200 ethnic groups, such apparent stability is a feat which some believe can only be achieved by tyrannical rule and centralised government.
		Zaire’s corruption, most recently exposed by the Belgian press, has soured relations between Zaire and its former colonizer.
		So tracking the Virunga mountain gorillas or voyaging up the Zaire river is an exercise in initiative and bribe-dodging.
	www.newint.org /issue219/profile.htm (494 words)

	Zaire - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		* Chief Port: Kinshasa, river port on the Zaire River (formerly Congo River).
		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.
		Mobutu also agreed to stop assistance to anti-MPLA groups who were fighting to overthrow the Marxist regime of President Neto, this was in return for Neto's agreement to disarm the FLNC guerillas and then remove them from the borders of the Shaba province.
	www.africanet.com /africanet/country/zaire (1440 words)

	In and Out of Africa - Don't pay the Ferryman...
		Lingala is a small port on the Zaire river (previously the Congo) and was our first opportunity to put the truck on a Zaire river boat.
		The Zaire river trip is a 'must do' for many African travellers and the people on the truck were very dissapointed at the thought of missing out on the boat trip.
		It was obviously a major event when the ferry actually crossed the river as people from kilometres around appeared for the free crossing (it really was free for ordinary passengers).
	www.url.co.nz /african_trip/stories.php?story_id=8 (6828 words)

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