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Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa , it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria , and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
He began consolidating his power through far-reaching and repressive measures. The role of provinces was curtailed, their number was reduced, which led to a highly centralised state. The country was renamed the Republic of Zaire, and the 1974 constitution, replacing the 1967 constitution, codified the authoritarian state. It strongly curtailed ...
[23] [24] [25] The river was known as Zaire during the 16th and 17th centuries; Congo seems to have replaced Zaire gradually in English usage during the 18th century, and Congo is the preferred English name in 19th-century literature, although references to Zaire as the name used by the natives (i.e., derived from Portuguese usage) remained ...
It occupies 40,130 square kilometres (15,490 sq mi) in the north west of the country and had a population of 594,428 inhabitants in 2014. [1] It is bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean , on the north by the Democratic Republic of Congo , on the east by the Uíge Province , and on the south by the Bengo Province .
The Constitution of Zaire (French: Constitution du Zaïre), was promulgated on 15 August 1974, revised on 15 February 1978, and amended on 5 July 1990. It provided a renewed legal basis for the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko who had emerged as the country's dictator after the Congo Crisis in 1965.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1097 is adopted unanimously, in which the Council endorsed a five-point peace plan to address the situation in eastern Zaire. [2] 29 March Société Minière et Industrielle du Kivu (Sominki) is put into liquidation. [3] 16 May Donatien Mahele Lieko Bokungu, army chief of staff, is killed by Mobutu ...
Belgian government announces deployment of 250 troops to support of the Zaire government. [1] 6 March André Bo-Boliko Lokonga becomes prime minister of Zaire 14 October Presidents José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia sign the Southern Africa Non-aggression Pact.
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