ocr: ZAIRE 45 Official Name: language: Republic of. Zaire Currency: Capital: Kinshasa GEATRILAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC UD Population: 39.9 million New: zaire Official French FORMERLY THE BELGIAN CONGO, Zaire became independentin1960 and was plungedinto civil war. President Mobutu took inl 1965,renamed the country Zaire and ) Mbandaka Kisangani power instituted a corrupt and unpopularregime. His e O18 a reluctance to see through the transition to multiparty democracy, begun in 1990, has Bukavu RWANDA left Zaire with two governments and a BURUNDI failing economy. The rainforested KINSHASA llebo ) basin of ...
