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Lubumbashi

American  
[loo-boom-bah-shee] / lʊˈbʊm bɑ ʃi /

noun

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


Lubumbashi British  
/ 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)

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Virtus invested in a copper-and-cobalt processing plant near Lubumbashi, Congo, in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

He was travelling from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Laos, transiting through Ethiopia and Thailand, according to the department.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

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

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

It was on 13 March 1958, when Congo was under Belgian colonial rule, that Amadeus Muidikay and his wife Alphonsine Bambiwa Tumba were blessed with a baby girl in Lubumbashi.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2022

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.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

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