Stanleyville

On Sunday, before the fighting spread, the city formerly known as Stanleyville was a nervous microcosm of the divided rebel movement and its feuding patrons: Wamba was holed up in a downtown hotel under the protection of Ugandan troops, while Rwandan soldiers and their Congolese rebel allies patrolled the rest of the town.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

He said columns moving in from the northeast and the south were expected to take the city - once known as Stanleyville - "within days."

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Formerly called Stanleyville, the port city of 300,000 was once known across the continent as a vibrant center for diamond runners, gold miners and foreign entrepreneurs.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Formerly called Stanleyville, it was once known across Africa as a vibrant meeting spot for diamond runners, gold miners and foreign businessmen.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Here we spent the night on the boat and early the following morning boarded a special train for Stanleyville, which is only six hours distant by rail.

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In 2002, Nkunda "brutally suppressed a mutiny in Kisangani, a key trading town formerly known as Stanleyville that sits on a broad bend in the Congo River.

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In the Congo in 1964, Simba rebels, who believed that witchcraft made them bulletproof, had briefly occupied Stanleyville and still threatened it.

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(Soundbite of water flowing) QUIST-ARCTON: Present-day Kisangani used to be colonial Stanleyville, named after the American journalist and adventurer who, along with Livingstone, earned fame by finding the source of the Congo River, near the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

Congo River Pulses Life Into African Nation 2010

(Soundbite of water flowing) QUIST-ARCTON: Present-day Kisangani used to be colonial Stanleyville, named after the American journalist and adventurer who, along with Livingstone, earned fame by finding the source of the Congo River, near the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

Congo River Pulses Life Into African Nation 2010

(Soundbite of water flowing) QUIST-ARCTON: Present-day Kisangani used to be colonial Stanleyville, named after the American journalist and adventurer who, along with Livingstone, earned fame by finding the source of the Congo River near the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

Congo River Pulses Life Into African Nation 2010