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Ruanda-Urundi
[ roo-ahn-duh-oo-roon-dee ]
noun
- a former territory in central Africa, east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly part of German East Africa; administered by Belgium as a League of Nations mandate 1923–46 and as a United Nations trust territory 1946–62; now divided into the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.
Ruanda-Urundi
/ ʊˈæԻəʊˈʊԻɪ /
noun
- a former territory of central Africa: part of German East Africa from 1890; a League of Nations mandate under Belgian administration from 1919; a United Nations trusteeship from 1946; divided into the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi in 1962
Example Sentences
Mr. Bagaza was born on Aug. 29, 1946, in Rutovu, a town in what was then Ruanda-Urundi.
When Belgium assumed control of the region in 1916, it was called Ruanda-Urundi, two kingdoms of similar ethnic makeup--some 85% Hutu, 14% Tutsi and 1% Twa.
Later, the Afro-Asians showed similar restraint about the rebellious Portuguese colony of Angola and about Ruanda-Urundi, the little Belgian-run territory east of the Congo that is due to get freedom next July 1.
"First of all," said Adlai Stevenson not long ago, when asked about the United Nations' latest African problem, "I find very few people who even know where Ruanda-Urundi is or what it is."
Well, to begin with, Ruanda-Urundi is actually two countries, which the natives call Rwanda and Burundi.
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