Ngaliema

[ uhng-gah-lee-ey-muh ]

noun

1. Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5,119 meters).

Example Sentences

In a classroom of the Commercial Technical Institute in Kinshasa's Ngaliema district, dozens of people filled out voter registration forms last week, the first area of the country to do so.

From Reuters

The district of Ngaliema is the other side of the capital from the stadium and the church of St Alphonse.

From The Guardian

The local member of parliament in Ngaliema is the firebrand opposition leader Franck Diongo, who was arrested during the protests after a confused fracas with some Republican Guards.

From The Guardian

Ngaliema is on a hill, near the base of the feared Republican Guard, Kabila’s praetorians.

From The Guardian

They went to the airfield at Bumba and hired a small plane to fly them to Kinshasa, and when they reached the city, they took Sister M. E. to Ngaliema Hospital, a private hospital run by Swedish nurses, where she was given a room of her own.

From Literature