Sentence examples for the shaba from inspiring English sources

Hizbullah also attacked Israeli military positions in the Shaba Farms area to the east.

He also faced a continuing threat of attacks on the Shaba region (Mobutu's Africanized name for the Katanga province) by Katangese rebels based in Angola.

During the months following the Shaba invasion, Mobutu sought solutions to the military problems that had contributed to the army's dismal performance.

With the Shaba conflict starting in 1978, the main source for cobalt, the copper mines of Katanga Province, nearly stopped their production.

Lake Kisale, expansion of the Lualaba River on the Katanga (Shaba) plateau of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The timing of the first Shaba invasion, a full 11 years after the creation of the Popular Movement of the Revolution (Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution; MPR) in 1966, underscored the shortcomings of the single-party state as a vehicle for national integration and of "Mobutism" as an ideology for the legitimization of Mobutu's regime.

In 2005, the copper deposits in the Katanga Province (former Shaba province) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were the top producer of cobalt with almost 40% world share, reports the British Geological Survey.

This tour takes in more of Kenya's world-famous safari parks – Aberdare, Samburu, Masai Mara and Amboseli among them – staying in luxury lodges including the Sarova Shaba Game Lodge and Sarova Mara Game Camp along the way.

It rises on the Katanga (Shaba) plateau at about 4,600 feet (1,400 m), near Musofi, Congo.

The belt extends about 280 miles (450 km) northwest from Luanshya, Zamb., into the Katanga (formerly Shaba) region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In the southeast the ridges of the plateaus of Katanga (Shaba) province tower over the region; they include Kundelungu at 5,250 feet (1,600 metres), Mitumba at 4,920 feet (1,500 metres), and Hakansson at 3,610 feet (1,100 metres).