Lomami

[loh-mah-mee]

noun

1. a river in the S Democratic Republic of the Congo, flowing N to the Congo River. 900 miles (1,448 km) long.

Example Sentences

Militia members have recruited large numbers of children and used crude weapons to attack security forces and some government buildings in Kasai, Kasai Central, Kasai Oriental, Sankuru, and Lomami provinces, Human Rights Watch said.

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The militia is also alleged to have committed atrocities, including killing about 30 people, among them children, following an incursion into the neighbouring Lomami region on 9 March.

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Militia members have recruited large numbers of children, and using crude weapons have attacked security forces and some government buildings in Kasai, Kasai Central, Kasai Oriental, Sankuru, and Lomami provinces, Human Rights Watch said.

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Boyes said the region should be known as the “water tower of southern Africa,” since, in addition to providing the origins of the Delta, the region also sources such vital rivers as the Zambezi, which includes Victoria Falls, and the Lomami River, a major tributary in the Congo Rainforest.

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New monkey species discovered A slender, golden-maned monkey, well known to Congolese villagers in the Lomami River basin and first sighted by researchers in 2007, has been declared a new species.

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