What is "zaires"

Usage examples of "zaires".

Last week a young man walked up and asked me outright for three thousand zaires, and once again my jaw dropped.

Now the black market is so much healthier than the legitimate economy I’ve seen people use zaires for repairing cracks in their walls.

I had a thousand things on my mind: getting the boys into school, finding a place to live, exchanging the dollars from Mother at some Kinshasa bank that wouldn’t give us old zaires or counterfeit new ones, getting food so we wouldn’t overwhelm poor Elisabet.