Sentence examples for mai mai from inspiring English sources

The term "mai mai" refers to maji, the Kiswahili word for water, because many of the Mai Mai fighters grease themselves up with a mixture of palm oil and holy water before stepping on the battlefield.

Each rape experience had only one code for perpetrator even though there may have been a group of perpetrators (example: a group of Mai Mai perpetrators would have had a single perpetrator code of "Mai Mai").

They accused him of being Mai Mai".

But in eastern Congo, the Mai Mai seem increasingly restless.

When the peacekeepers said no, the Mai Mai opened fire.

This is what the Mai Mai have done".

There are thousands of Mai Mai fighters in dozens of loosely connected Mai Mai groups scattered across Congo.

The Mai Mai, he suggested, were not "negative forces".

But many villagers said they disliked the Mai Mai.

CNDP said everybody who stayed is considered Rwandan militia or Mai Mai".

The peacekeepers fired back and killed one Mai Mai, United Nations officials said.