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Operation Kitona was a Rwandan/Ugandan
offensive that
marked the
beginning of the
Second Congo War.
Rwanda hoped to
depose Laurent-Désiré
Kabila and install...
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Kitona is a town of
about 4,000 persons[citation needed] in the Bas-Congo
province of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is
located to the southwest...
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Kitona Air Base (ICAO: FZAI) is a
military airport located near
Kitona in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. Up
until 2007, it was
commanded by
Major General...
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negotiate an
agreement with the
Congolese central government,
which led to the
Kitona Declaration stating that
Katanga was part of the
Congo and
planned to re-integrate...
- flew them to the
government base of
Kitona on the
Atlantic coast. The
planes landed in the
middle of the
Kitona base, but the
motley collection of troops...
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around Élisabethville.
Faced with
international pressure,
Tshombe signed the
Kitona Declaration in
December 1961 in
which he
agreed in
principle to
accept the...
- from the coast.
Southwest approach and
departure are over the water. The
Kitona Base VOR (Ident: KIT) is
located 4.0
nautical miles (7.4 km) east of the...
- army in May 1997. (Prunier says that the
instructors were
still at the
Kitona base when the
Second Congo War
broke out, and had to be
quickly returned...
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pressure on the
rebel state, and
eventually Tshombe relented and
signed the
Kitona Declaration. When in 1962
violence began to
flare up again,
Katangan gendarmes...
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responsible for
mobilised 30,000
disillusioned FAC troops, 'garrisoned at
Kitona,' to join the rebellion.
During this period,
Congolese living in the Kivus...
