Kisangani

[ki-zahng-gah-nee, kee-sahng-gah-]

noun

1. a city in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Congo (Zaire) River.

Kisangani

/ ˌkɪsæŋˈɡɑːnɪ /

noun

1. Former name (until 1966): Stanleyville. a city in the N Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), at the head of navigation of the River Congo below Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls): Université Libre du Congo (1963). Pop: 475 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Further upstream, in the city of Kisangani, the mayor said that over 200 houses have been submerged.

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Katumbi's campaign is scheduled to kick off on Monday in the northern city of Kisangani.

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Worobey and Hamilton collected their chimpanzee samples, with help from local forest guides, and then scrambled out of Kisangani, Worobey with his arm in a sling from a badly infected forest wound, Hamilton desperately ill with malaria.

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“The poverty is not in itself the problem, it’s the misery,” Kisangani Archbishop Marcel Utembi, president of the Congolese conference of bishops, said in an interview last year.

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Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of Kisangani, who is also president of the bishops’ conference, has said church officials are anxious about continued attacks by armed groups against civilians in displacement camps.

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