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The angry Zairian foreign minister put out a chastising call to Ali.
From Time • Jun. 4, 2016
But African music in the 80s was just about dance, partying, Congolese guitars and "la Sape", the Zairian form of dandyism.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
The two men cut a deal: in exchange for being given command over the 2,000 Zairian Tutsi soldiers, Kabila agreed to conduct a broadly based revolution aimed at toppling Mobutu from power.
From Time Magazine Archive
For all the hard work of the Zairian doctors and students and the expertise offered by the international aid workers, the hardest job of all falls to the 26 local Red Cross workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
I thought of the six pathetic little infant chimps who were confiscated in Kigoma from Zairian hunters the previous year.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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