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Cabinda

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Ca·bin·da  (k-bnd)
A territory of Angola forming an exclave on the Atlantic Ocean between the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). It was separated from Angola proper when the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) acquired a corridor to the sea along the lower Congo River.
Cabinda [kəˈbiːndə]
n
(Placename) an exclave of Angola, separated from the rest of the country by part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre). Pop.: 174 000 (1993 est.). Area: 7270 sq. km (2807 sq. miles)


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Some of this complexity comes out in the life of Jan Vissers, a priest who lived for twenty-five years among the Woyo of Cabinda and Angola.
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Around the same time, activists initiated a boycott of Gulf Oil, whose payments to Portugal for the right to drill for oil in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda financed the Portuguese dictatorship's wars to hold on to their African colonies in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau.
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Another attack in Cabinda had been repelled in the week of 8 June.
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