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.

When the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) was formed, Karmal became one of its leading members, and eventually became the leader of the Parcham faction.

Among these were the writing of the Fundamental Principles of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, introducing a general amnesty for those people imprisoned during Nur Mohammad Taraki's and Amin's rule, and replacing the Khalqist flag with a more traditional one.

When the Soviets supported the 1979 coup, Rabbani helped lead Jamiat-e Islami in resistance to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime.

* Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

Jimmy Carter had officially ended the policy of Détente, by financially aiding the Mujahideen movement in neighboring Afghanistan, which served as a pretext for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan six months later, with the aims of supporting the Afghan government, controlled by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

US Financed the training for the Mujahideen warlords such as Jalaluddin Haqqani, Gulbudin Hekmatyar and Burhanuddin Rabbani eventually culminated to the fall of the Soviet satellite the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

* 1978 – The Soviet Union signs a " friendship treaty " with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

* 1979 – The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

These included the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), which had close ideological ties to the Soviet Union.

As disillusionment set in, in 1978 a prominent member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), Mir Akbar Khyber ( or " Kaibar "), was killed by the government.

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

From 1978 to early 1990s, the city served as a strategic location for the pro-Soviet Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

On April 27, 1978, in the so-called Saur revolution, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), seized power in a bloody military coup killing Daoud and his family along with many of his supporters.

* The forerunner to KHAD, the secret police of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

* April 1985 — To ratify the new constitution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

In April 1978 there was a coup, known as the Saur Revolution, orchestrated by the Soviets and members of the government loyal to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ).

Following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan continued to deal with attacks from the Mujahiddin.

Under the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( 1978 – 1992 ), weapon deliveries by the Soviets were increased and included Mi-24 helicopters, MiG-23 fighter aircraft, ZSU-23-4 " Shilka " and ZSU-57-2 anti-aircraft self-propelled mounts, MT-LB armored personnel carriers, BM-27 " Uragan " and BM-21 " Grad " multiple-launch rocket systems and FROG-7 and Scud launchers.

He had previously held different careers under the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) and was a graduate of Kabul University.

In 1965 Najibullah joined the Parcham faction of the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) and in 1977 joined the Central Committee.

On 13 July 1987 the official name of Afghanistan was changed from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan to Republic of Afghanistan, and in June 1988 the Revolutionary Council, whose members were elected by the party leadership, was replaced by a National Assembly, an organ in which members were to be elected by the people.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

The Democratic Party of the Left ( successor to the Communist Party ) started the procedure of impeachment ( Presidents of Italy can be impeached only for high treason against the State or for an attempt to overthrow the Constitution ).

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

does not have any electors in the U. S. Electoral College, although the Puerto Rico chapters of the Republican and Democratic parties can ( and do ) have state-like voting delegations to their respective nominating conventions, as well as voting representation in the Democratic and Republican National Committee.

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 ).

Washington County generally leans Democratic but can be closely divided.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, they can be found both in peri-urban environments as well as in rural regions, for example, in South Kivu.

Countries where all the members of the Big Five can be found include Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Despite having recently elected Democratic mayors, Lebanon can be considered to be highly Republican when it comes to national and state politics.

Much of the turnover can be attributed to thousands of registered Independents and registered Republicans switching to the Democratic Party during the second term of President George W. Bush's tenure in the late 2000s.

Abraham can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Serpico ( 1973 ), also as the bad guy in one 3rd Season episode of Kojak, he played a cab driver in the theatrical version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( 1975 ), a mechanic in the theatrical version of The Sunshine Boys ( 1975 ) and in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), as one of the police officers who arrests the Watergate burglars in the offices of the Democratic National Headquarters.

All DNC members are superdelegates ( i. e. unpledged delegates ) to the Democratic National Convention and can influence a close Presidential race.

Along with those delegates chosen during the primaries and caucuses, state delegations to both the Democratic and Republican conventions also include " unpledged " delegates, usually current and former elected officeholders and party leaders, who can vote for whomever they want.

Brinkley helped found a club for cutting, an equestrian sport in which a rider has two and one half minutes to cut as many cattle from a herd as he can. Since 1998, Brinkley has given nearly $ 100, 000 to organizations and candidates of the Democratic Party of the United States, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, America Coming Together and Moveon. org.

His campaign help for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( CDU ) prompted some of his former comrades to call him a Wryneck ( German term: Wendehals ; a bird that can turn its head 180 degrees ; popular term used to mock Communists who have turned capitalist ).

The phrase can also be found in Chapter III, Article 13 of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, and in President Ho Chi Minh's 1945 declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

A 1997 publication by Democratic Dialogue stated that " It is clear that many in Northern Ireland are willing to tolerate the Other's cultural identity only within the confines of their own core ideology ... most nationalists have extreme difficulty in accepting unionists ' Britishness or, even if they do, the idea that unionists do not constitute an Irish ethnic minority which can ultimately be accommodated within the Irish nation ...." The publication also stated that " Irishness is a highly contested identity, subject to fundamentally different nationalist and unionist perceptions which profoundly affect notions of allegiance and group membership ".

Trotsky argued that the united front could have great appeal to workers who wished to fight fascism: “ The programme of action must be strictly practical, strictly objective, to the point, without any of those artificial ‘ claims ’, without any reservations, so that every average Social Democratic worker can say to himself: what the Communists propose is completely indispensable for the struggle against fascism.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the ten-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967-68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

These statements can be explaned due to the large number of Slavomacedonian fighters ( 30-50 %) amongst the DSE fighters and prompted the government in Athens to begin a campaign against KKE and the party's military wing, the Democratic Army of Greece ( DSE ), blaming them for secession plans in northern Greece.