1. zaire - Noun
2. Zaire - Proper noun
Zaire
(historical) A former country (1971-1997) in Central Africa; now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
zaire (plural zaires)
(historical) The unit of currency of Zaire.
Zaire is the country that has been the most heavily exploited in the world. That is why farms, ranches, plantations, concessions, commerce, and real estate agencies will be turned over to sons of the country. Mobutu Sésé Seko
Democracy is not for Africa. There was only one African chief and here in Zaire we must make unity. Mobutu Sésé Seko
We in Zaire spent a lot of time building a strong central state which could resist Soviet aggression quickly and effectively. This enabled us to decisively make the uniform decisions that were necessary to fulfill our national defense obligations and our commitments to the United States. Mobutu Sésé Seko
A critical assessment of the colonial obsession with sleeping sickness in: Lyons, Maryinez (1992), The Colonial Disease, A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900–1940, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Source: Internet
American maintenance teams working in Zaire found that providing a free lunch to the work force was a good, sometimes the only, technique to motivate personnel to work at least half of the duty day. Source: Internet
A refugee camp for displaced Tutsi in Zaire following the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Source: Internet