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Kisangani

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Ki·san·ga·ni  (ksän-gän, k-zänggä-n) Formerly Stan·ley·ville (stnl-vl)
A city of northern Congo (formerly Zaire) on the Congo River northeast of Kinshasa. It was founded in 1883 by the explorer Henry M. Stanley. Population: 683,000.

Kisangani [ˌkɪsæŋˈgɑːnɪ]
n
(Placename) a city in the N Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), at the head of navigation of the River Congo below Stanley Falls: Université Libre du Congo (1963). Pop.: 417 517 (1994 est.) Former name (until 1966) Stanleyville


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Tjostolv Moland, 28, and Joshua French, 27 -- both former soldiers -- were convicted Tuesday by a military court in the Congo city of Kisangani for killing their driver on May 5.
Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland had been charged with murder, espionage and arms smuggling after their driver was found shot dead near the city of Kisangani, in the east of the country, in May this year.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Emile Mpanya, ACT representative in Kisangani, the most northerly navigable point on the River Congo, said that the U.
 
 
 
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