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Lubumbashi

American  
[loo-boom-bah-shee] / lʊˈbʊm bɑ ʃi /

noun

  1. a city in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Lubumbashi British  
/ ˌluːbʊmˈbæʃɪ /

noun

  1. Former name (until 1966): Elisabethville. a city in the S Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre): founded in 1910 as a copper-mining centre; university (1955). Pop: 1 102 000 (2005 est)

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KoBold, meanwhile, is in the process of digitizing archives at the University of Lubumbashi in Congo and has signed an agreement to also digitize documents for neighboring Burundi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

A 3-0 loss to Saint-Eloi Lupopo in Lubumbashi, however, means the odds are against the Buccaneers even reaching the group stage that follows the second round.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2025

While voting in Lubumbashi, opposition candidate Katumbi asked the population to stay at polling stations and monitor results until the end.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Elisabeth Tshala Muana Muidikay was born on March 13, 1958, in Élisabethville, in what was then the Belgian Congo; the city is now Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

It was on 13 March 1958, when Congo was under Belgian colonial rule, that Amadeus Muidikay and his wife Alphonsine Bambiwa Tumba were blessed with a baby girl in Lubumbashi.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2022

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