Lubumbashi

[loo-boom-bah-shee]

noun

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

Lubumbashi

/ 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)

Example Sentences

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

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

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The legal action on Monday, by the Commercial Court of Lubumbashi, came after the country’s state-owned mining enterprise had sought the removal of the mine’s Chinese management.

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Beijing’s burgeoning economic might has contributed to an infrastructure boom across the continent, in cities such as Djibouti; Luanda, Angola; and Lubumbashi, Congo.

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Lubumbashi is a mining town rich in esoteric minerals, but its citizens have vastly unequal access to the kinds of technology, like high-efficiency light bulbs, that their extracted wealth is used to produce.

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