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Kindu

American  
[kin-doo] / ˈkɪn du /

noun

  1. a town in E Zaire, on the Lualaba River.


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The plane crashes into a densely forested area just outside of Kindu, located about 620 miles east of Kinshasa.

From Fox News

Among several incidents, Fayulu was prevented from landing in Kindu where he was scheduled hold a rally on Dec. 9, according to his campaign manager, Pierre Lumbi.

From Fox News

His hometown, Kindu, is near the Tanzanian border.

From New York Times

Ongala was born in Kindu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the hardships of his early life had a profound effect on his later songwriting.

From The Guardian

There, led by a Belgian colonel and 250 mercenaries, the 2,000-man 5th Mechanized Brigade clanked out of its staging area at Kongolo one morning, rumbled 250 miles in four days, conquered the rebel communications center at Kindu almost without firing a shot, and found itself a mere 250 miles south of Stanleyville.

From Time Magazine Archive