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Tshombe was born near Musumba,
Belgian Congo, the son of a
successful businessman. The
Tshombe family were
Lunda royalty and a
number of
Tshombes had...
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proclaimed its
independence from Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960
under Moïse
Tshombe,
leader of the
local Confédération des ****ociations
tribales du Katanga...
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block Tshombe,
appointed an anti-
Tshombe leader, Évariste
Kimba of the FDC, to be
prime minister-designate in
November 1965, but the
largely pro-
Tshombe Parliament...
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Liberation in Kivu,
inspired by the late
Patrice Lubumba. In 1964, Moïse
Tshombe returned from self-exile in
Spain and
declared himself to be the only person...
- The
Tshombe Government (French:
Gouvernement Tshombe) was the set of
ministers that
governed the
Democratic Republic of the
Congo under the leadership...
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Kimba had a falling-out with
Tshombe and took up
several ministerial posts in the new
province of
South Katanga.
Tshombe was
later made
Prime Minister...
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Tshumbe Airport (ICAO: FZVJ) is an
airport serving the city of
Tshumbe in
Sankuru Province,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. The
runway is just southwest...
- the
Congo by 11 May 1964.
While travelling to meet
rebel leader Moise Tshombe during the conflict, Dag Hammarskjöld,
often named as one of the UN's most...
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tortured and
executed by the
separatist Katangan authorities of Moïse
Tshombe. In 2002,
Belgium formally apologised for its role in the execution, admitting...
- in the
Belgian Congo and was led by the pro-Western
regionalist Moïse
Tshombe and his
interior minister,
Godefroid Munongo. It
became the
ruling party...
