ocr: But by the nineteen-fifties independence movements were sweeping across Africa and, after riots and appalling nassacres in the capital of Kinshasa in 1959, the colonial authorities were shaken so badly that they granted independence the followingyear. The country eventually changed its name from the Belgian Congo to - Zaire in1 1971. Zaire, incidentally, is about eighty times the size of Belgium.
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