Pet Congo African Grey Parrot in Norway

* Congo African Grey Parrot ( Psittacus erithacus erithacus ): This is the nominate subspecies, larger than the Timneh at about long, with light grey feathers, cherry red tails, and an all-black beak.

A pet Congo African Grey parrot

A one-day-old Congo African Grey parrot chick, which was hatched in an incubator

Congo African Grey Parrot on top of its cage.

** Congo African Grey Parrot ( Psittacus erithacus erithacus ), subspecies

Image: Congo African Grey Parrot in a harness. jpg | African Grey Parrot wearing a harness

The zoo manages the studbooks for Congo buffalo, jaguar, blue-eyed cockatoo, Madagscan tree boa, gemsbok ( all ESB species ), black rhinoceros, Ecuadorian Amazon parrot, Mindanao writhe-billed hornbill and Rodrigues fruit bat ( all EEP species ).

Does this suggest that the Congo is fit for nationhood or that UN is making any progress whatever toward its goal of so making it??

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

No matter that Gizenga is Moscow's man in the Congo.

A massive investigation of the characteristics of in-migrants and prospective out-migrants in Ruanda-Urundi is being carried on by J. J. Maquet, former Director of the Social Science branch of IRSAC, now a professor at l'Universite Officielle Du Congo Belge et Du Ruanda-Urundi.

It also provides a frame within which the registration of vital events is gradually gaining force ( though one cannot expect to obtain reliable vital statistics in most parts of the Congo from this source in the near future ).

The population of the Congo is 13.5 million, divided into at least seven major `` culture clusters '' and innumerable tribes speaking 400 separate dialects.

The Belgians were interested primarily in the economic development of the Congo, which is rich in copper, tin, cobalt, manganese, zinc, and uranium, and cotton and palm oil.

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.

* 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.

* 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.

In Lingala ( spoken in the Congo ), it is known as lɛngalɛnga or bítɛkutɛku.

* 1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.

The okapi ( a genus restricted to Africa ) is found only in the dense forests of the Congo basin.

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

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

Air service is maintained by Air Burundi, which operates domestic service and flies to Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

It is bordered by the countries of Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo.

Much of the southern border is formed by tributaries of the Congo River, with the Mbomou River in the east merging with the Uele River to form the Ubangi River.

Fishing is carried on extensively along the rivers, but most of the catch is sold or bartered on the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) side of the Ubangi River.

A bongo drinks from a swamp. Angola, Benin extinct ?, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya ( the only place where the eastern bongo are found in the wild ), Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo extinct?

Patasse has been found guilty of major crimes in Bangui and CAR has brought a case to the International Criminal Court against him and Jean Pierre Bemba from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo accusing them both of multiple crimes in suppressing one of the mutinies against Patasse.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

The lunar crater Soddy is named after him, as is the uranium compound Soddyite, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Upon arrival at his station in the Congo, he found that the steamer he was to command had been damaged and was in need of repair.

Neither species of African rhinoceros is common in the Congo Basin, and the Mokèlé-mbèmbé may be a mixture of mythology and folk memory from a time when rhinoceros were found in the area.

They are found in coastal marine and estuarine habitats, and in freshwater river systems along the west coast of Africa from the Senegal River south to the Kwanza River in Angola, including areas in Gambia, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Côte d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

An early sketch of the extent of Niger – Congo as one language family can be found in Koelle's observation, echoed in Bleek ( 1856 ), that the Atlantic languages used prefixes just like many Southern African languages.

Vowel inventories of this type are still found in some branches of Niger – Congo, for example in the Ghana Togo Mountain languages.

Only a few Niger – Congo languages are non-tonal ; Swahili is perhaps the best known, but within the Atlantic branch some others are found.

Coltan, the industrial name for a columbite – tantalite mineral from which columbium ( i. e. niobium ) and tantalum are extracted, can also be found in Central Africa, which is why tantalum is being linked to warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( formerly Zaire ).

The ang-bindi made by the Baka people of the Congo is but one example of this instrument found among tribal societies in Africa and Southeast Asia, and it lends its name to the generic term inbindi for all related instruments.

The ang-bindi made by the Baka people of the Congo is but one example of a traditional version of the instrument found among tribal societies in Africa and Southeast Asia, and it lends its name to the generic term inbindi for all related instruments.

Hippos are still found in the rivers and lakes of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, north through to Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, west to Gambia, and south to South Africa.

A series of serosurveys in 1939 in central Africa found anti-WNV positive results ranging from 1. 4 % ( Congo ) to 46. 4 % ( White Nile region, Sudan ).

The area of current day Angola was inhabited during the paleolithic and neolithic eras, as attested by remains found in Luanda, Congo and the Namibe desert, eventually, at the beginning of recorded history other cultures and people also arrived.

Some of the highest grade uranium ores in the world were found in the Shinkolobwe mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( the initial source for the Manhattan Project ) and in the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, Canada.

The bonobo is found in a area of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa.

This mutated virus has been spreading at a rate of 50 miles per year, and as of 2005 may be found throughout Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo.

On December 19, 2005, the International Court of Justice found against Uganda, in a case brought by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for illegal invasion of its territory, and violation of human rights.