The anecdotal evidence, however, is there for all to see: even tiny village markets in central Africa often sell smoked ape meat, particularly in Congo and the former Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is regarded as a delicacy.
Congo-Brazzaville, a small country of about 2.5m people across the river from the other Congo (formerly Zaire), was due to hold a presidential election on July 27th.
Interestingly, neodymium magnets were invented in the 1980s to overcome the global cobalt supply shock that occurred as the result of internal warfare in Zaire (now Congo).
Muamba was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, and came to England in 1999 at the age of 11 after being granted political asylum.
What exactly should President Kabila, having conquered Zaire and renamed it Congo, put at the top of his agenda?
Under international law the host country, then Zaire, now once again Congo, should have provided security for the refugees, and separated the fighters, but the late Mobutu Sese Seko was the Hutus' ally, happy to leave them armed and close to the border.
It is feared that this looting could spread across the Zaire river to Brazzaville, in Congo, where Kinshasa's rich have set themselves up.
Ebola was first identified in equatorial Sudan following significant outbreaks in northern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and southern Sudan in the mid 1970s.
Muhammad Ali went to Africa in 1974, knocking out George Foreman in a fight in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) billed as the "Rumble in the Jungle" which became one of boxing's biggest upsets.
He labelled the end of the contest in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), which underdog Ali won by knockout in the eighth round to reclaim the world heavyweight crown at the age of 32 - as "the most extraordinary few seconds that I have ever seen in a boxing ring".
He has been on missions in Liberia, Yemen and Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Ebola virus was first detected in 1976 in the central African nation of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
In 1987, Mr. Gilman sent John Lukas, a zoologist who heads White Oak's conservation program, to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to work with pygmy tribes to capture an okapi, an extremely rare animal that resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra.
Since 1960, America has been dragged into military conflicts in Cuba, Thailand, Laos, Congo, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Zaire, El Salvador, Libya, Lebanon, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chad, Liberia, Bosnia, Somalia and, more recently, Kosovo and Colombia.
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