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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.
Mobutu Sese Seko and U.S. President George H. W. Bush in Washington, D.C., 1989.. For the most part, Zaire enjoyed warm relations with the United States. The United States was the third largest donor of aid to Zaire (after Belgium and France), and Mobutu befriended several U.S. presidents, including John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.
Not long after regime change, Zaire became known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United States remains a partner with the DRC and other central African nations in their quest for stability and growth on the continent, and facilitated the signing of a tripartite agreement on regional security in the Great Lakes region between the ...
Authenticité, [note 1] sometimes Zairisation or Zairianisation in English, was an official state ideology of the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko that originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in what was first the Democratic Republic of Congo, later renamed Zaire.
At the time of its incorporation, the nation was named ‘Zaire’, and was seen as key to the national, anti-red interests of the United States of America. Since the year of its joining, the DRC has reached 424.5 million special drawing rights , which amounts to .22% of the total number of SDRs in the IMF. [2]
DR Congo: Named Zaire from 1971-1997. Now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo or Congo-Kinshasa. July 1, 1960 Italy Somalia: July 31, 1960 France: Dahomey: Renamed to Benin in 1975. August 5, 1960 France: Upper Volta: Renamed to Burkina Faso in 1984. August 7, 1960 France Ivory Coast: August 8, 1960 France Niger: August 11, 1960 France Chad
[27] [28] [29] 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 common.
Republic of Zaire (1971–1997) (2) Mobutu Sese Seko (1930–1997) [a] 1977 1984: 27 October 1971 [2] 16 May 1997 (Deposed in a civil war) [3] 25 years, 201 days MPR: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997–present) 3: Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939–2001) — 17 May 1997 16 January 2001 (Assassinated) 3 years, 244 days Independent