Word: congo
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...mercenary standards, Robert Denard's was an illustrious career. The French soldier of fortune waged war throughout three decades in such places as the old Congo, Angola and Benin and had a hand in the overthrow of three governments in the Comoro Islands. But Denard may have finally pushed fortune too far. Involved in the assassination of Comoro President Ahmed Abdallah, Denard and his mercenary minions were running the country until late last week, when French troops called in by the Comoro interim President hastened his departure...
...major conduit for ivory entering both Hong Kong and Japan. In February he helped Tokyo's largest trader, Koichiro Kitagawa, purchase nearly five tons of Sudanese ivory for $1 million from another Hong Kong dealer. In 1987 he engineered the purchase of 26 tons of Congo ivory by the Osaka trader Kageo Takaichi. The $3.5 million shipment contained 2,052 tusks...
...student stated that her organization, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, will "challenge the extent to which Mobutu is qualified to speak on peace and progress." On numerous occasions, President Mobutu has proven his ability as a peacemaker. After five years of civil war following the independence of the "Belgian-Congo," he united the country under the banner of the M.P.R. in 1965, giving the citizens of Zaire peace and stability for over two decades. In 1983, the President sent Zairian troops to Chad in order to assist the Chadians in their battle against the Libyan army. Recently, President Mobutu...
PARIS--A DC-10 airliner bound from the Congo to Paris with 170 people aboard disappeared on Tuesday, probably over the West African country of Niger, the French airline UTA said...
...most common rationale for national renaming. During the 1950s and '60s, anti-colonialism swept through the newly independent nations of Africa. The Gold Coast dubbed itself Ghana, in honor of an ancient African empire that was located hundreds of miles from the modern nation. When the Belgian Congo became independent in 1960, it renamed itself the Republic of the Congo. Eleven years later, President Joseph Mobutu rechristened it the Republic of Zaire. A year later, he took his policy of "authenticity" personally, renaming himself Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Nbgendu Wa Za Banga, which means, more or less, "the all-powerful...