Sentence examples for banda in from inspiring English sources

In 1605, he was at Banda in the Banda Islands, when according to an account given to Abel Jansen Tasman, issued in Batavia in 29 January 1644 he was ordered by VOC President Jan Willemsz Verschoor, to explore the coast of New Guinea.

In 1994 Bakili Muluzi defeated Banda in Malawi's own elections and set about liberalising the country.

Mr. Chiluba had campaigned for Zambia's president, Rupiah Banda, in last year's election.

Reflecting on his first year in office as president of Zambia, Rupiah Banda in 2009 frankly described his experience as "tough".

In the Central African Republic the Baya, in the west, are the most numerous, but the Banda, in the centre, occupy the largest territory.

She lived in a modest single-storey thatched home, known as a "banda" in Swahili, and constructed in a traditional African village style with no windows or internal doors, on a small parcel of land on the beach.

One friend wandered out into her kitchen in Banda Aceh in fuzzy early morning mode, straight into her ex from Kabul, who had arrived the week before and picked up her flatmate at a party.

The arrests came just two days before two men will publicly receive 85 lashes with the cane after their arrest in Banda Aceh in late March and conviction of sodomy under the province's Sharia law.

UNICEF has an offic in Banda Aceh, in the affected region.

In Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda lost power via the ballot box in 1991; in Malawi, Hastings Banda lost in 1994 and then Joyce Banda lost in 2014; and in Madagascar, such transitions have happened three times.

Field trials were conducted in Banda Aceh, Indonesia in the season of 2011/2012 (November 2011 - March 2012) and in Lingshui, China in the winter season of 2013/2014 (November 2013 - May 2014), respectively.