Crossword clues for zaire
zaire
- Kinshasa was its capital
- Former central African republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, once
- Democratic Republic of Congo's old name
- Ali fought there
- African state
- '70s-'90s Angola neighbor
- Where Mobutu Sese Seko ruled
- Where Ali won his 1974 world heavyweight title
- Where Ali upset Foreman in 1974
- Where Ali fought Foreman
- Where Ali beat Foreman in "The Rumble in the Jungle"
- Until 1997 the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- UN roster name, 1971-97
- The Congo, previously
- The Congo, before 1997
- Tanzania neighbor, formerly
- Site of an Ali fight
- Site of Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle"
- Scene of "The Rumble in the Jungle"
- One hundred makuta in Kinshasa
- Old name of the Congo
- Old name of Congo
- Old name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Old name for the Congo
- Neighbor of Portuguese West Africa, on old maps
- Nation west of Rwanda, formerly
- Nation renamed in 1997
- Name on some old maps of Africa
- Mobutu was its president
- Mobutu Sese Seko's nation
- Locale of 1974's Rumble in the Jungle
- Kinshasa's land, formerly
- Kinshasa's country, once
- Kinshasa's country, during Mobutu's rule
- Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Former name of sub-Saharan Africa's largest country
- Former name of a Congolese nation
- Democratic Republic of the Congo's former name
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, prior to 1997
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Country that gained independence in 1960
- Congo's other name
- Congo's one-time name
- Congo's name, 1971-1997
- Congo, now
- Congo republic
- Congo neighbor, about 20 years ago
- Congo formerly
- Central African Empire neighbor, on old maps
- Belgian Congo renamed
- Angola's northern neighbor, once
- African nation where Ali KO'd Foreman
- African nation that practiced Mobutism
- African country renamed in 1997
- 1974 name of the country where boxing's Rumble in the Jungle took place
- "Rumble in the Jungle" locale
- "New" currency replaced by the Congolese franc
- '70s-'90s African state
- Its capital is Kinshasa
- World's largest cobalt exporter
- Ali-Foreman battle site
- Former country name
- New ___ (Congolese money)
- Where Ali KO'd Foreman, 1974
- Congo Basin river
- Old name for Kinshasa's country
- Congo, once
- Country name from 1971-97
- Congo, formerly
- Congo's name before 1997
- Where Ali dethroned Foreman
- 1971-97 nation name
- Site of Ali's Rumble in the Jungle
- Former name for Congo
- 1990s war locale
- Setting for the 1996 documentary "When We Were Kings"
- Old country name or its currency, both dropped in 1997
- Congo, from 1971 to 1997
- Bygone country name or its currency
- The Congolese franc replaced it
- African nation renamed in 1997
- The basic unit of money in Zaire
- A republic in central Africa
- Achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
- Rumble in the Jungle setting
- Belgian Congo, today
- Mobuto Sese Seko's land
- A neighbor of Sudan
- Sudanese neighbor
- Kinshasa is its capital
- Where the Lomami flows
- Neighbor of Tanzania
- Fight site: Oct. 30, 1974
- Scene of Mailer's "The Fight"
- The Congo today
- African nation's former name
- African fight site for Ali
- Third-world nation
- Country once called Belgian Congo
- The former Belgian Congo
- Old country with two sharp bends on river
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly
- Unknown river in old country
- African republic (formerly)
- Congo's former name
- Congo's old name
- The Congo, formerly
- Country now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Mobutu's land
- Kinshasa's country, formerly
- Former name of the Congo
- Ali-Foreman fight location
- "Rumble in the Jungle" setting
- Site of the Ali-Foreman rumble
- Site of the 1974 fight known as "The Rumble in the Jungle"
- Name on African maps (at least up to 1997)
- Mobutu ruled it
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
African nation (1971-1997), from an early alternative name of the Congo River, from Kikongo nzai, dialectal form of nzadi "river."
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) The unit of currency of Zaire.
WordNet
n. the basic unit of money in Zaire
a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960 [syn: Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgian Congo]
Wikipedia
Zaire , officially the Republic of Zaire (; ) was the name, between 1971 and 1997, of a state in Central Africa which was later renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the end of the Mobutu Sese Seko era. The state's name derived from the name of the Congo River, sometimes called Zaire in Portuguese, adapted from the Kongo word nzere or nzadi ("river that swallows all rivers").
The state was a one-party state and dictatorship, run by Mobutu Sese Seko and his ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution party. It was established following Mobutu's seizure of power in a military coup in 1965, following five years of political upheaval following independence known as the Congo Crisis. Zaire had a strongly centralist constitution and foreign assets were nationalized. A wider campaign of Authenticité, ridding the country of the influences from the colonial era of the Belgian Congo, was also launched under Mobutu's direction. Weakened by the end of American support after the end of the Cold War, Mobutu was forced to declare a new republic in 1990 to cope with demands for change. By the time of its disestablishment, Mobutu's rule was characterized by widespread cronyism, corruption and economic mismanagement.
The state collapsed in 1996, amid the destabilization of eastern Zaire in the aftermath of the Rwandan Civil War and growing ethnic violence. In 1997, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, at the head of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo militia, led a popular rebellion against the central government. With rebel forces making gains in the east, Mobutu fled the country, leaving Kabila's forces in charge.
Zaire is the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Zaire may also refer to:
- Zaire Province of Angola
- Zaire Use, a variation of the common mass of the Roman Catholic Church
- Congo River, once the "Zaire River"
- Zairean zaire, former currency
- Zaïre (play), an 18th-century play by Voltaire
- "In Zaire", a 1976 song by Johnny Wakelin
Voltaire (1694–1778)
]] Zaïre (; The Tragedy of Zara) is a five-act tragedy in verse by Voltaire. Written in only three weeks, it was given its first public performance on 13 August 1732 by the Comédie française in Paris. It was a great success with the Paris audiences and marked a turning away from tragedies caused by a fatal flaw in the protagonist's character to ones based on pathos. The tragic fate of its heroine is caused not through any fault of her own, but by the jealousy of her Muslim lover and the intolerance of her fellow Christians. Zaïre was notably revived in 1874 with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role, and it was the only one of Voltaire's plays to be performed by the Comédie française during the 20th century The play was widely performed in Britain well into the 19th century in an English adaptation by Aaron Hill and was the inspiration for at least thirteen operas.
Usage examples of "zaire".
It extends from the Zaire on the north to the Nourse on the south, and its chief towns are the ports of Benguela and of St.
It extends from the Nourse, in the south, as far as the Zaire in the north, and the two principal towns form two ports, Benguela and St.
In the region of the great lakes, throughout the vast district which feeds the market of Zanzibar, in Bornu and Fezzan, further south on the banks of the Nyassa and Zambesi, further west in the districts of the Upper Zaire, just traversed by the intrepid Stanley, everywhere there is the recurrence of the same scenes of ruin, slaughter, and devastation.
Zaire: the majority of African states, as a matter of record, opposed his intervention on the side of the tribalist and pro-South Africa militias in Angola.
Charles Cordier, a professional animal collector who worked for many zoos and museums, followed tracks of the Kakundakari in Zaire in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Congo, called by the natives Zaire, and now known as the second of African rivers, the true counterpart of that western Nile, which every geographer since Ptolemy had reproduced and which, in the Senegal, the Gambia, and the Niger, the Portuguese had again and again sought to find their explanation.
EBOLA VIRUS IS named for the Ebola River, which is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo, or Zaire, River.
Then the Hutu strategy backfired, and by August the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front was in power in Rwanda, and somewhere between half a million and a million Hutus had become refugees in other countries, mainly Zaire.
His toil told, at least temporarily, upon his years, but he had the grand satisfaction of knowing that he had traced the whole course of the Lualaba, and had ascertained, beyond reach of question, that as the Nile is the great artery of the north, and the Zambesi of the east, so Africa possesses in the west a third great river, which in a course of no less than 2900 miles, under the names of the Lualaba, Zaire, and Congo, unites the lake district with the Atlantic Ocean.
Deeper down, under the wet batiste remnant shorn of its buttons, she found the torn half of the envelope with the Zaire stamp URGENT PLEASE FORWARD, picking it through till the phone brought her up with her thumb to her lips, tasting blood, Mrs who.
At the time, there were enormous numbers of them in five different countries: Chad, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Uganda and Zaire.
We had been warned by friends that we had to get ourselves a currency declaration form when we entered Zaire or we would hit trouble later on.
It looked like the Ebola Zaire Mayinga strain under the electron microscope, and that was the worst of the sub-types of the virus.
Imagine Zaire with no more epidemics and secret filoviruses brewing to destroy the world.
That was troubling to the medical community, because Ebola Zaire had a mortality rate of roughly eighty percent.