Democratic Republic of Congo

noun

1. See Congo

Example Sentences

Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country's vast mineral wealth while propped up by the West.

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The potential for unrest remains as worsening living conditions undermine what had been one of the region’s most stable economies, potentially threatening its valuable tourism industry and disrupting shipments of copper and cobalt from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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It moved to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo and was also active in South Sudan and the CAR, where remnants of the rebels are understood to have engaged in poaching and illegal mining.

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Mbuthuma watched in horror as his penalty in a shootout went wide, giving victory to visiting Saint-Eloi Lupopo from the Democratic Republic of Congo in a qualifier.

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Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, at least theoretically, each stand to earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year should they stamp out deforestation entirely.

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