KISANGANI

kēsangäˈnē, formerly Stanleyville, city (1996 est. pop. 500,000), capital of Orientale province, N central Congo (Kinshasa), a port on the Congo River. The city is the terminus of steamer navigation on the Congo from Kinshasa and is a transportation center for NE Congo. It is on a short rail line (to Ubundi) that skirts the Boyoma Falls. Manufactures include metal goods, furniture, and beer, and cotton and rice are shipped from the city. Kisangani has an international airport and hydroelectricity is produced on a nearby tributary of the Congo.

Founded in 1883 by the explorer Henry M. Stanley and originally located on a nearby island in the river, the city, as Stanleyville, became the stronghold of Patrice Lumumba in the late 1950s. After the assassination of Lumumba in 1961, Antoine Gizenga set up a government there that rivaled the central government in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa). Gizenga's regime was quashed in 1962, but in 1964, 1966, and 1967 the city was the site of temporarily successful revolts against the central government. Kisangani has a campus of the National Univ. of the Congo and a museum.

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Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa: Conflict Roots, Mass Violence, and Regional War
Book by Christian P. Scherrer; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Burundi--Ethnic Relations--History--20th Century, Genocide--Rwanda, Low-Intensity Conflicts (Military Science)--Congo (Democratic Republic), Rwanda--Ethnic Relations--History--20th Century, Violence--Congo (Democratic Republic)
...between the Ugandan and Rwandan armies in Kisangani left several dozen soldiers dead on both...troops were reported to control most of Kisangani after the fighting but the cease-fire...clashes. See Normality begins to return to Kisangani, in: IRIN-CEA Update 740, August...
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Pope John Paul II and the Church
Book by Peter Hebblethwaite; Sheed & Ward, 1995
Subjects: Catholic Church--Doctrines, Catholic Church--History--20th Century, John Paul--Ii--Pope--1920-
...climate. That was the reason for the visit to Kisangani, in Upper Zaire. Kisangani is at the point where the Zaire river becomes...Sr. Anwarite, may soon be beatified. At Kisangani John Paul delivered his homily on the merits...
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African Encounters with Domesticity
Book by Karen Tranberg Hansen; Rutgers University Press, 1992
Subjects: Africa--Social Life And Customs, Home Economics--Africa, Home--Africa, Sex Role--Africa, Sexual Division Of Labor--Africa, Women--Africa--Social Conditions
...30 November 1989, Yakoso; Machuli Georgine , 2 December 1989, Kisangani; Asha Marguerite, 3 December 1989, Kisangani; Machuli Bolendela, 3 December 1989, Kisangani; meeting with former Yakusu boarding school students, organized by...
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International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of International Peace Operations - Vol. 9
Book by Harvey Langholtz, Boris Kondoch, Alan Wells; Martinus Nijhoff, 2005
Subjects: International Law--Periodicals, International Police--Periodicals, Peacekeeping Forces--Periodicals, United Nations--Peacekeeping Forces--Periodicals
...Robinson cited accounts hy witnesses in Kisangani detailing the shooting of police and...mutiny. A Congolese woman who lives in Kisangani told R/ her experience on May 14, 2002...and a Uruguayan Infantry Baffalion in Kisangani. MONUC commanders there did not believe...
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Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failure
Book by Bruce D. Jones; Lynne Rienner, 2001
Subjects: Conflict Management--Rwanda, Genocide--Rwanda--Prevention, Rwanda--Ethnic Relations, United Nations--Peacekeeping Forces--Rwanda
...most important city in central Zaire, Kisangani, fell to the ADFLsol;RPF. At this...a mere nine weeks after the fall of Kisangani, the ADFL entered Kinshasa after a brief...key points in the war, especially at Kisangani, refugees placed between warring parties...
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Political, Economic, and Social Consequences of Foreign Military Intervention
Journal article by Jeffrey Pickering, Emizet F. Kisangani; Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Developing countries--LDCs, Economic impact, Foreign policy, Hypotheses, International relations, Military engagements, Politics, Social impact, War
...Foreign Military Intervention by Jeffrey Pickering , Emizet F. Kisangani Hermann and Kegley (1996: 440) maintain that foreign military...and Kegley 1998; Krain 2005; Peceny 1999; Pickering and Kisangani 2005; Reiter 2001). The conceptual breadth of the IMI definition...
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Parlor Illusions: Stereoscopic Views of Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal article by Rick Vanderknyff; African Arts, Vol. 40, 2007
Subjects: Historians--Equipment and supplies, Historians--Practice, Stereoscope--History, Stereoscope--Usage, Stereoscopes--History, Stereoscopes--Usage
...connecting what is today Kinshasa and Kisangani. Henry Morton Stanley, who explored...stereograph was built to bypass the rapids near Kisangani, and allow for the transport of people...Basoko, about 200 miles downriver of Kisangani, was then, as today, one of the larger...
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Reconstructing the Congo
Journal article by Herbert F. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa)--History, Congo (Kinshasa)--Military policy, Postwar reconstruction--Military aspects, Postwar reconstruction--Political aspects
...supporters of Prime Minister Lumumba in Kisangani became "anti-Western." Unlike the...rejoin supporters in his home base of Kisangani. He was captured by forces loyal to...to stop the May 14, 2002 massacres in Kisangani, as well as the May 2004 clashes in...
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'Provincializing Europe': the Postcolonial Urban Uncanny in V. S. Naipaul's a Bend in the River
Journal article by Erica L. Johnson; Journal of Narrative Theory : JNT, Vol. 40, 2010
Subjects: Colonialism, Criticism, Critics, Human relations, Nationalization
...river journey from the inland city of Kisangani down the Congo River to Kinshasa, Naipaul...Naipauls impressions of the ruins of Kisangani, resurface sometimes verbatim in his...at the bend of the river (an unnamed Kisangani) is composed of colonial and postcolonial...
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Suffering and Survival in Central Africa
Journal article by Catharine Newbury; African Studies Review, Vol. 48, 2005
Subjects: African history, Blacks, Genocide, Human rights, Politics, Refugees
...two hundred thousand fled west toward Kisangani (257). The options were different...mountains into the forest and toward Kisangani. Umutesis account of this harrowing...several weeks in this swampy area south of Kisangani. But many who made it this far, finding...
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The Limits of Smart Power: Can the U.S. Military End the Epidemic of Sexual Violence in Congo without Getting Involved in Another Endless Conflict?
Magazine article by David Axe; The American Prospect, Vol. 21, December 2010
Subjects: American military assistance--Social aspects, Clinton, Hillary Rodham--Foreign policy, Kisangani, Congo (Kinshasa)--Social aspects, Military assistance, American--Social aspects, Rape--Military aspects, Secretaries of state--Foreign policy
...in Iraq. In February, the training shifted to a base in Kisangani, in central Congo. There, the American instructors focused...battalions activation ceremony in February. As the commandos in Kisangani were wrapping up their courses, a fresh contingent of American...
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Hunt for the Origin of AIDS ... Researchers Scour the Jungle for Clues
Magazine article by Jon Cohen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, October 2000
Subjects: AIDS (Disease), Poliomyelitis, Vaccination, Virus diseases
...perhaps 400 chimpanzees near what is now Kisangani. Researchers abandoned the camp in 1960...the Camp Lindi chimps, he traveled to Kisangani. He was accompanied by the pre-eminent...3,000 toward his research. Once in Kisangani, Hooper and Hamilton split up the tasks...
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The Hunt for the Origin of AIDS
Magazine article by Jon Cohen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, October 2000
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)--Causes of, Disease etiology, Diseases--Causes and theories of causation, Poliomyelitis vaccine--Advertising, Poliovirus vaccines--Advertising
...perhaps 400 chimpanzees near what is now Kisangani. Researchers abandoned the camp in 1960...the Camp Lindi chimps, he traveled to Kisangani. He was accompanied by the pre-eminent...3,000 toward his research. Once in Kisangani, Hooper and Hamilton split up the tasks...
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Vessel of Last Resort: One of the Last Tourists to Take a Barge Up the Congo River Had Arrived, but Dead of Malaria
Magazine article by Jeffre Taylor; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 278, September 1996
Subjects: Central Africa--Description and travel, Congo River
...that the last tourist to take a barge to Kisangani had arrived, but dead of malaria. I...was certain who would arrive alive in Kisangani. Dawn found us coursing past grassy...these foodstuffs in the huge markets of Kisangani after the ascent of the river or Kinshasa...
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Caught in Time: On the Boyoma Falls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Wagenia Tribe Have Been Fishing in the Same Way for Hundreds of Years. Their Technique of Wedging Wooden Fish Traps into the Water-Eroded Rocks Was First Described during the 19th Century by Henry Morton Stanley, and Remains Exactly the Same Today
Magazine article by Andrew Mcconnell; Geographical, Vol. 83, September 2011
Subjects: Beach erosion--Causes of, Coastal erosion--Causes of, Congo (Kinshasa)--Environmental aspects, Fishing (Recreation)--Environmental aspects, Fishing--Environmental aspects
...Boyoma Falls on the Lualaba River, near Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...kilometres upstream from the city of Kisangani. Bamanga is the second of the seven...tumultuous rush. Stanleyville was renamed Kisangani in 1966, and has gone on to become one...
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Spotlight on Africa Finds Only Warfare and Want
Newspaper article by Betsy Pisik; The Washington Times, May 18, 2000
Subjects: Africa, Holbrooke, Richard, Kabila, Laurent, United Nations
...mission to Congos third-largest city, Kisangani, in the nations northeast, "within...nationality is deemed appropriate, to Kisangani immediately in the next few weeks is...rebels, have been fighting for control of Kisangani, but agreed on May 8 to withdraw their...
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Rerun of a Familiar Scenario in Zaire
Newspaper article by Arnaud De Borchgrave; The Washington Times, May 13, 1997
Subjects: Kabila, Laurent
...in a French covert operation to hold Kisangani, Zaires third-largest city, Mr...the occupation of Stanleyville (now Kisangani) by the pro-Marxist Simbas (then...first thing its cadres did after taking Kisangani was to requisition vehicles without so...
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U.N. Putting Brakes on Train Repatriations
Newspaper article by Judith Mbuya; The Washington Times, May 6, 1997
Subjects: United Nations. Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
...transporting them from the town of Biaro, 25 miles south of Kisangani, where they were to be airlifted back to Rwanda. No UNHCR...by rail. Kilian Kleinschmidt, head of the UNHCR office in Kisangani, said, "We were told this afternoon that the train was...
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A Lone Journey Down Stanley's War-Torn Road; Blood River A Journey into Africas Broken Heart by Tim Butcher(Chatto, [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; June 11, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Chemical indicators, Indicators and test-papers
...or on the back of a 100cc motorbike. That Butcher gets to Kisangani, some 2,000 miles away by dug-out, UN gunboat and barge...or on the back of a 100cc motorbike. That Butcher gets to Kisangani, some 2,000 miles away by dug-out, UN gunboat and barge...
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Congo Diplomat Denies Cover-Up: Says Rebels Didn't Help Kill Hutus
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, July 9, 1997
Subjects: Kabila, Laurent
...participated in the capture of the capital, Kinshasa, and Kisangani, Lubumbashi and other cities. Mr. Kagame said Rwanda armed...cities with relatively little loss of blood. They swept into Kisangani, Mbuji-Mayi, Lubumbashi and finally Kinshasa with scant...
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Kisangani
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KISANGANI kesanga ne, formerly Stanleyville...and rice are shipped from the city. Kisangani has an international airport and hydroelectricity...revolts against the central government. Kisangani has a campus of the National Univ. of...
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Congo, Democratic Republic of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bukavu , Kalemie , Kamina , Kananga , Kisangani , Kolwezi , Likasi , Lubumbashi , Matadi...River (e.g., Kinshasa-Matadi and Kisangani-Ubundi) are bridged by rail lines...to Lumumba, controlled the east from Kisangani (then called Stanleyville); Albert...
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Congo , River, Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Kabalo, the Lualaba River flows N to Kisangani in a varied course marked by a deep and...known as Boyoma Falls between Ubundu and Kisangani that marks the end of the Lualaba and...beginning of the Congo River proper. Below Kisangani, the Congo flows west and southwest...
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Orientale
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...204,000 sq mi (528,360 sq km), N Congo (Kinshasa). Kisangani is the capital. Orientale borders the Central African Republic...Lumumbas followers, led by Antoine Gizenga and centered at Kisangani (then Stanleyville), attempted to establish a government...
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Kivu , Region, Congo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the region. Most of Kivu was controlled (1961 62) by the breakaway regime of Antoine Gizenga, which was centered at Kisangani (then Stanleyville). Kivu has been a base for various rebel groups and militias, including Hutu guerrilla forces from...
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