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This is a list of Congolese people. Niasony. Kevin Andzouana, footballer; Hilaire Babassana; Benoît Bati, politician; Fidèle Dimou; Junior Etou (born 1994), basketball player; Raymond Isaac Follo, politician [1] Pascal Gamassa, politician [2] Alphonse Gondzia; Serge Ibaka, basketball player; Marcel Kalla, politician; Ernest Kombo; Bill ...
The Kongo people in all three colonies (Angola, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo) became one of the most active ethnic groups in the efforts to decolonize Africa, and worked with other ethnic groups in Central Africa to help liberate the three nations to self governance. [7]
The Republic of the Congo was established on 28 November 1958 and gained independence from France in 1960. It was a Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1992, under the name People's Republic of the Congo (PRC).
The Congo River is the world's deepest river and the world's third-largest river by discharge. The Comité d'études du haut Congo ("Committee for the Study of the Upper Congo"), established by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1876, and the International Association of the Congo, established by him in 1879, were also named after the river. [21]
Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after the provincial capital was captured by rebels ...
The People's Republic of the Congo had 2,153,685 inhabitants in 1988. There were 15 ethnic groups, although most people were Kongo, Sangha, Mbochi, or Teke. 8,500 Europeans were present as well, mostly of French extraction. French was the official language, but other recognized languages included Kituba and Lingala.
An ongoing escalation has displaced around half a million more people and led to the capture last week of Congo's largest eastern city Goma, fanning fears of regional wars like those that killed ...
Congolese people may refer to: People from the following countries and regions: Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the Congo River; Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), the former French Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), the former Belgian Congo; Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group in the Congo region