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unusual facts about Democratic Republic of Congo



AC Dynamique

AC Dynamique is a football club in Kindu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

AS Aigle Rouge

AS Aigle Rouge is a football club in Isiro, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Cupidesthes thyrsis

It is found in Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ubangi, Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba).

Eurytela alinda

It is found in Nigeria (the southern part of the country and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

FC Makila Mabe

FC Makila Mabe is a football club in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Freedom from Torture

For the same year, 69.7% of referrals were from the following 10 countries: Iran (267), Sri Lanka (233), Afghanistan (108), Democratic Republic of Congo (90), Turkey (79), Pakistan (56), Uganda (52), Iraq (48), Nigeria (45) and Sudan (39).

Gabriel Zakuani

Gabriel Abdala Zakuani (born 31 May 1986) is a Congolese footballer who plays for Kalloni.

Gao Hucheng

In 1972 Gao was chosen to study French at the Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute, and in 1975 he went abroad to study at the National University of Zaire in Kinshasa, capital of Zaire (now known as Democratic Republic of Congo).

Ilebo

Ilebo, formerly known as Port-Francqui, is a town in Kasaï District, Kasaï-Occidental province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying at the highest navigable point of the Kasaï River.

Jackie Sewell

He then moved to Northern Rhodesia and became player-coach for City of Lusaka F.C. He later coached teams in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the Belgian Congo (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo).

Johan Van Mullem

Johan Van Mullem was born in Isiro in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Flemish parents, but spent much of his childhood following his diplomat father from country to country.

Jonathan Littell

From 1994 to 2001, he worked for the international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger, working mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also in Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Caucasus, Afghanistan and Moscow.

Joseph Sebarenzi

Sebarenzi earned his doctorate in International Human Rights Law from the National University of Ireland in Europe, a master’s degree in International and Intercultural Management from SIT Graduate Institute in the United States, and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Journey Without Maps

In 2009 the journey was retraced by the English writer and journalist Tim Butcher, former Africa correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and author of the bestselling book on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (2007).

King Solomon's Mines

Kukuanaland is said in the book to be forty leagues north of the Lukanga river in modern Zambia, which would place it in the extreme south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lesula

The lesula lives in rainforests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the 2007 specimen found in captivity in the village of Opala.

Luca Servo

Since 2001, he has focused on International development activities, being founding member of Amka, an Italian NGO operating in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on integrated development programs.

Luis López Álvarez

His cultural commitment to the Congo led him to found and direct the Institute of Congolese Studies, a commitment which turned into political activism alongside Patrice Lumumba, future Prime Minister, who renewed many years later as an adviser of the first President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila.

Maniema Union

Maniema Union is a football club in Kindu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mwenga Territory

Mwenga is a territory in the province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo .

Oboronia pseudopunctatus

It is found in Ghana (the Volta region), Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba) and north-western Tanzania.

OC Mbongo Sport

OC Mbongo Sport is a football club in Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Singa Mwambe

Singa Mwambe is a football club in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.

TAAG Angola Airlines

Portuguese news agency Lusa said the aircraft had taken off from the Angolan capital, Luanda, and was trying to land at M'banza-Kongo in the province of Zaire, which is in northern Angola near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Vungu

The kingdom or polity of Vungu was a historic mini-state located on the north bank of the Congo River near the modern day town of Matadi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Z with stroke

Ƶ was sometimes used instead of Z to represent the zaire, a former currency of the Democratic Republic of Congo.


see also

Bemba

Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former vice-President of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Cécile Kyenge

Kyenge was born in Kambove (Haut-Katanga District) in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 28 August 1964.

E. cinnamomea

Euphaedra cinnamomea, a butterfly species found in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Graham Toulmin

Graham Adrian Toulmin, AM FICD (born 31 March 1948) is a dentist and musician, notable for his fundraising and dental philanthropy for the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mangbetu

Mangbetu languages, a cluster of closely related languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Mongalla

Mongala District, an administrative region of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Perenco

It has exploration and production activities in 16 countries across the globe (the North Sea, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Belize, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam).

Pericopsis elata

The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world's largest remaining stocks of Afrormosia, which are largely confined to the Équateur Province and Orientale Province.

Stoppila Sunzu

Stopilla Sunzu was born in Chingola and is the younger brother of Felix Sunzu and the son of Felix Sunzu Sr a goalkeeper who was originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Werrason

Werrason, real name Noël Ngiama Makanda born December 25, 1965 in Moliombo, a small village in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo in Kikwit, Kwilu District is a musician from the Democratic Republic of Congo and also leader of the band Wenge Maison Mère (WMM).

Zande people

It was one Kingdom stretching from Rafaï, Zemio and Obo in what is now the Central African Republic, to the regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo along the Uele River, and the Western Equatoria State in South Sudan.