Zairean

Examples

• All

• During the humanitarian crisis, numerous Zairean families were forced to flee their homes.

• In 1969, a friend had introduced him to a Zairean painter in Livingstone who made a living by producing pictures of Victoria Falls for the tourist market.

  Academic text (1997)

• A handful of Zairean police guard the primitive landing.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Zairean President Mobutu contributed additional troops.

  Academic text (1992)

• The Zaireans

  Academic text (1992)

• Oral agreements reached with Zairean President Mobutu in Gbadolite quickly disintegrated.

  Academic text (1992)

• The United States arranged for UNITA to move its headquarters from Jamba near the Namibian border to camps near the Zairean border, which could be supplied through the Kamina air base in Zaire.

  Academic text (1992)

• Although Kappata seems to be unique in Zambia, across the border in Lubumbashi, on the Zairean side of the Copperbelt, and in Kinshasa, Zaire's capital, there are a number of artists of similar social background who have chosen to concentrate on traditional, colonial, and contemporary social themes.

  Academic text (1997)

• The committee estimates, on the basis of numerous reports and testimonies that support the allegations, that close to 200,000 refugees, most of them Hutus, died on Zairean soil in an arbitrary fashion or else disappeared as a consequence of a deliberate strategy of slow extermination of a portion of the Rwandan population.

  Academic text (2006)

• Many Zaireans gathered to celebrate their culture at the festival in Kinshasa.

Synonyms

Z

Zairian

vsZairean

8.1

A person from Zaire, the country now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo

is the general demonym rather than the historically dated form

Z

Zairese

vsZairean

9.1

A person from Zaire, the country now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo

is the general term without restricting use to those years

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology