The Benguela Railway already connects to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A small number of FAA personnel are stationed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Kinshasa ) and the Republic of the Congo ( Brazzaville ).

Zimbabwe and Namibia joined Angola in its military intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where Angolan troops remain in support of the Joseph Kabila government.

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

Armenia became independent from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic on 28 May 1918 as the Democratic Republic of Armenia ( DRA ).

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

* 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.

* Aba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

ARIN formerly covered Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe until AfriNIC was formed.

Belgium, like France, controlled African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( formerly Zaire ), Rwanda, and Burundi until the early 1960s.

In the group was an emcee named Ya Kid K from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who later led the group into international fame with hits like " Pump up the Jam " and " Shake That Body ".

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

Burundi is located in central Africa, to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the co-ordinates.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame met with the Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Joseph Kabila in Goma on 6 August 2009.

Namibia also intervened in the Second Congo War, sending troops in support of the Democratic Republic of Congo's president Laurent-Désiré Kabila.

Currently The Democratic Republic of Congo's music is domoninated by the " ndombolo " dance and well represented by the newest congolese superstar: Fally Ipupa is a strong performer from the Democratic Republic of Congo who worked with the legendary Koffi Olomide in his group, Quatier Latin, before branching out on his own.

The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (,, ), is Congo's elected Head of State, and the ex officio " Supreme Commander " ( Commander-in-Chief ) of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( FARDC ).

On November 18, 2010, the Paris Club canceled $ 7. 35Bn of Democratic Republic of the Congo's debt.

* Two Congolese soldiers died and eleven others injured in a plane crash as the United Nations and Democratic Republic of the Congo's army airlifted local troops to the northeastern frontier to confront Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels.

Mission Aviation Fellowship is maintaining flights for civilians and aid agencies in two of the Democratic Republic of Congo's current trouble spots.

* If the country merged into an existing country, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of this country is used ( e. g., the German Democratic Republic merged into Germany, whose alpha-2 code is < tt > DE </ tt >).

ISO 3166-2: KP is the entry for North Korea ( officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ) in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

* lel, ISO 639: l code for Lele language ( Democratic Republic of the Congo )

ISO 3166-2: CD is the entry for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Currently for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 city and 10 provinces.

The first part is < tt > CD </ tt >, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* Mongo language ( ISO 639-3 code ), a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The ISO does not support the Republican party or Democratic party, both of which it views as political representatives of corporate power.

In 2007, the ISO voted to withdraw its involvement at its national conference, criticising the failure of the project to achieve its intended goals and the role of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in that failure.

Upon its resignation from the Alliance, the former International Socialist Organisation accused the Democratic Socialist Perspective of what it deemed " disastrous decisions " such as declaring the Alliance a multi-tendency socialist party and adopting Green Left Weekly as the official paper, which the ISO saw as alienating other Alliance members and affiliates.

* COD, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for the Democratic Republic of the Congo

* Congolese franc, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Alliance grouped together the Democratic Socialist Perspective ( DSP ), the ISO, and other left groups and individuals.

It was chosen based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the German Democratic Republic, the letters coming from the German name of the country:.

American democratic thought, pointed up the relation between the Protestant movement in this country and the development of a social religion, which he called the American Democratic Faith.

The average Democratic politician, especially in the country districts, is hungry for the spoils of office.

The country has of land border: of which is shared with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Rwanda and with Tanzania.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

Kabila named himself president, consolidated power around himself and the AFDL, and reverted the name of the country to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Democratic Republic of Congo also possesses 50 percent of Africa ’ s forests and a river system that could provide hydro-electric power to the entire continent, according to a United Nations report on the country ’ s strategic significance and its potential role as an economic power in central Africa.

On the other hand, the Democratic Republic of Congo has thousands of kilometres of navigable waterways, and traditionally water transport has been the dominant means of moving around approximately two-thirds of the country.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has fewer all-weather paved highways than any country of its population and size in Africa — a total of 2250 km, of which only 1226 km is in good condition ( see below ).

Kemal Saiki, a United Nations spokesman, said that the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not " even have 2, 000 miles of roads " and that many people traveling around the country fly on aircraft.

To assist the new government, since February 2000 the United Nations has had the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( now called MONUSCO ), which currently has a strength of over 16, 000 peacekeepers in the country.

In domestic policy the People's Delegation sought socialism based on the Finnish Social Democratic ethos ; their vision of democratic socialism for the country differed sharply from Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat.

The German government has had issues with upkeep of the roads in the country, having had to revamp the eastern portions transport system since the unification of Germany between the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) and the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ).

The country was then renamed the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( DRA ), and the PDPA regime lasted, in some form or another, until April 1992.

In 1992 the Democratic Party of Albania took control of the country through parliamentary elections, deposing the Communist Party of Albania, and Sali Berisha held the premiership of the country.

Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.

After taking power, the Khmer Rouge leadership renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea.

After England, Germany was the first European country to pass labour laws ; Chancellor Bismarck's main goal being to undermine the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

As epitomised in the slogan, “ For a Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry ”, a revolution in underdeveloped Tsarist Russia required an allied proletariat of town and country ( urban workers and peasants ), because the urban workers would be too few to successfully assume power in the cities on their own.

* 1920 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( Chosŏn ' gŭl: ), abbreviated to DPRK or PRK, and commonly referred to as North Korea (), is a country in East Asia, located in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.

This system is used in many countries, including Finland ( open list ), Latvia ( open list ), Sweden ( open list ), Israel ( where the whole country is one closed list constituency ), Brazil ( open list ), the Netherlands ( open list ), Russia ( closed list ), South Africa ( closed list ), Democratic Republic of the Congo ( open list ).

Thus, the word ' left ' in American political parlance may refer to ' liberalism ' and be identified with the Democratic Party, whereas in a country such as France these positions would be regarded as relatively more right-wing, and ' left ' is more likely to refer to ' socialist ' positions rather than ' liberal ' ones.

Sri Lanka (,, or ;, ), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.