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While some of those communities remained close to that region, by the middle of the second millennium BCE, a number of Savanna-Bantu descendant communities made their way eastward, probably along the Kasai and Sankuru Rivers.
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The Sankuru announcement increased the amount of protected land in Congo to 10 percent from 8 percent, he said.
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The Sankuru reserve also contains okapi, closely related to the giraffe, that is also native to Congo, elephants and at least 10 other primate species, the group said.
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Its boundary on the north is perhaps the Sankuru river.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Congo, travel two days by rail to Stanley Pool, take the Lapsley or a river boat, fourteen days journey up the Congo, the Kassai, and the Sankuru to Bene Debele, on the east bank, and then on foot or by hammock, nine days, through forests and open veldt.
The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status Charles Henry 1925
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This station, the village of Wembo-Niama, is accessible, being only nine days 'march from Bena Debele, on the Sankuru
The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status Charles Henry 1925
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The valley of the Sankuru and Kasai Rivers is one of the most densely populated of all the Belgian Congo.
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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They have been noticed north of the Zambesi, at the head of Lake Nyassa, in the Nguru mountains near Zanzibar, on the Lulua, on the Sankuru and in the horse-shoe bend of the Kongo, in the Kuango valley, in French Kongo, on the Aruwimi, on the Blue Nile, and in Abyssinia.
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The reserve is located in the Sankuru region, an area that experienced extensive fighting during the long-running civil war in the Congo.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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The reserve is located in the Sankuru region, an area that experienced extensive fighting during the long-running civil war in the Congo.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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