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Ngaliema

American  
[uhng-gah-lee-ey-muh] / əŋˌgɑ liˈeɪ mə /

noun

  1. Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5,119 meters).


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In a classroom of the Commercial Technical Institute in Kinshasa's Ngaliema district, dozens of people filled out voter registration forms last week, the first area of the country to do so.

From Reuters • Jan. 24, 2023

The local member of parliament in Ngaliema is the firebrand opposition leader Franck Diongo, who was arrested during the protests after a confused fracas with some Republican Guards.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2016

The district of Ngaliema is the other side of the capital from the stadium and the church of St Alphonse.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2016

Ngaliema is on a hill, near the base of the feared Republican Guard, Kabila’s praetorians.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2016

As the first nun at Ngaliema Hospital, Sister M. E., lay dying, her doctors had decided to give her a so-called agonal biopsy.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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