Ruwenzori
Americannoun
noun
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Beni lies at the foot of Mount Ruwenzori, which is surrounded by the well-known Virunga National Park.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
Formed in 1996 by a puritanical Muslim sect in the Ruwenzori mountains of western Uganda, the group recently established links with Somalia's al-Shabab militants, according to the UN.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2014
The ADF waged an insurgency against Kampala in the late 1990s from its bases in the Ruwenzori Mountains and across the frontier in the eastern Congo jungle.
From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2013
This book’s title refers to the nickname of the Ruwenzori Mountains in central Africa, where Louise ultimately travels to pay off a troubling psychic debt.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2012
Moon, Mountains of the, a range of mountains supposed by Ptolemy and early geographers to stretch across Africa from Abyssinia to Guinea, now variously identified as the Kenia, Kilimanjaro, Ruwenzori, &c.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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