Sentence examples for congo state from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hochschild proves particularly effective, since he gets right to it: "What made it possible for Congo state officials to deal out all this pain and terror?

Novelist John le Carre's (The Mission Song) op-ed in the Boston Globe "Getting the Congo's Wealth to Its People" explains, "As the deals presently stand, the main profit Congo state will make is from taxing the operations and exports of the mining companies.

The INDC of DR Congo states that the reduction in net LULUCF emissions will mainly be achieved through the implementation of afforestation and reforestation measures.

In February 1887 he signed an agreement making him governor of the district of the Falls in the Congo Free State (now Congo [Kinshasa]).

The Congo Free State was a corporate state in Central Africa privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium founded and recognised by the Berlin Conference of 1885.

In 1886 Boma became the capital of the Congo Free State, later the Belgian Congo, until replaced by Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) in 1926.

In the mid-1880's, with the help of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley and the approval of the world's leading powers, Leopold seized a swath of Africa (then the Congo Free State, now the Democratic Republic of Congo) more than 76 times the size of Belgium, turning it into a personal capitalist venture.

In 1885, Leopold II of Belgium established the Congo Free State, a little project that involved stripping the Congo of its natural resources as fast as humanly possible.

His more far-reaching crime is the slaughter, mutilation and exploitation of the citizens of the country then known as the Congo Free State.

Leopold's Congo Free State was not coextensive with the current Democratic Republic of Congo.

1900 was Abir's most profitable year and the Congo Free State's shares and taxes provided 2,567,880.50 fr of revenue for the state, 10% of that year's total.