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- Liberia had been founded in 1821 by a group of Americans as a colony for freed slaves who lived there first under white American rule and then, in 1847, under their own authority, as Africa's first self-governing republic.
Chpt 2 *republic = a country with a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, she had arrived in Clarkston with her six children in 2004 after escaping Africa's deadliest conflict in modern times: the second civil war in Congo—formerly Zaire—which raged from 1998 to 2002 and claimed an estimated 5.
Chpt 6republic = named for a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- The state's Republican governor, Sonny Perdue, had pledged a crackdown.
Chpt 25
- The long chain of dominoes that led to that aching choice first began to fall more than a hundred years before, in 1884 in Berlin, and tumbled through the twentieth century until ultimately bursting through the doorway of a small house at 19 rue Lweme in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, in the middle of the night on January 28, 2001.†
Chpt 6
- The Democratic Republic of Congo, Paula's homeland, occupies territory deep in the heart of Africa that remained mostly beyond the reach of Western powers until the 1870s, when the Welsh-born explorer Henry Morton Stanley became the first Westerner to successfully traverse Central Africa and returned to a hero's welcome in Europe.†
Chpt 6
- The emergence of African nationalism further weakened Belgian control of its colony, and in 1960, the Republic of Congo was granted independence.†
Chpt 6
- Kabila's coalition defeated Mobutu's entrenched regime with surprising ease, and in May 1997, Kabila entered Kinshasa and declared himself president of a country he renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo.†
Chpt 6
- In January, a group of twenty-nine men—most of them former associates of Masasu, including Joseph Balegamire—left Kinshasa in small dug-out canoes and paddled across five kilometers of the muddy Congo River to Brazzaville, the capital city of the former French colony the Republic of Congo, in an effort to escape the violence.†
Chpt 6
- A 2003 U.S. State Department report on human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo stated that at least sixty-nine people had died in the prison during the previous year, some from torture, others from malnutrition or disease.†
Chpt 6
- In 2005, the annual per capita gross domestic product of the country was a mere four hundred dollars—which ranks it ahead of only the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe among nations for which any data is available.†
Chpt 7
- The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo had issued no word on when—or if—he would be released.†
Chpt 27
- Halloween On October 27, less than a week after Luma's arrest on the way to Athens, Reuters, the BBC, and The New York Times each published short notices about a prison riot in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(republic as in: the country is a republic) of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
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(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.