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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Massamba commanded the Kitona Air Base until June 2007, when he was appointed as the chief of air force...

quickly topple the Kabila regime. On August 4, he led an airborne assault on Kitona Air Field airlifting with him around 3,000 RPA and UPDF soldiers. His troops...

responsible for mobilised 30,000 disillusioned FAC troops, 'garrisoned at Kitona,' to join the rebellion. During this period, Congolese living in the Kivus...

elements later formed the 4th Commando Bataillon which was stationed at Kitona in Bas-Congo. The regiment saw repeated action during the Congo Crisis of...

to rebel attacks. The Ndigili airport, in Kibanseke Province, as well as Kitona, both held by Zimbabwean troops, were attacked simultaneously. In both cases...

25°11′E / 0.53°N 25.19°E / 0.53; 25.19 (Kisangani) Orientale Stanleyville Kitona Bas-Congo Kituku 43,460 1°06′N 29°58′E / 1.10°N 29.97°E / 1.10; 29.97...

system. As a safeguard against Belgium being invaded again, two major bases, Kitona and Kamina, were established in the Belgian Congo. They were almost viewed...

political and regional lines. The centres are spread out around the country at Kitona, Kamina, Kisangani, Rumangabo and Nyaleke (within the Virunga National Park)...

Kinsangani (1997) 1998 – 2003 Second Congo War August 4 – 30, 1998 Operation Kitona June 5 – 10, 2000 Six-Day War (2000) October 2002 – January 2003 Effacer...

1987  Fiji 1987 South Pacific Championship National Stadium; Suva 216 VaiKitona Vai Flanker Aug 22, 1987  Fiji 1987 South Pacific Championship National...

April 1960. 4th Commando Battalion was established in the Congolese town of Kitona in Bas-Congo. In April 1960, it was transferred to Rwanda-Urundi. In Rwanda-Urundi...

Katangese Gendarmerie stronghold was captured. Tshombe signed the 21 December Kitona Declaration, recognizing the authority of the central government and reintegrating...

officers of the unit and new recruits in order to control the key area around Kitona and Kamina. In 1959, 2nd Commando Battalion was moved to Léopoldville to...

(multiple branches) Kenge Kikwit Kilwa Kindu Kinshasa (multiple branches) Kitona Kisangani Kolwezi (multiple branches) Likasi Lodja Logu Lubumbashi (multiple...

École interarmes in Belgium. In 1965, he became platoon school commander in Kitona, where he stayed for five years. He then became a military attaché to the...

triumph in Bukavu, Félix Mbuza Mabe was recalled by Kinshasa and sent to the Kitona base. In 2009, he died in Johannesburg  after a long illness, probably due...

command of Zimbabwean forces defending N'Djili Airfield during Operation Kitona. Nyambuya is a former army general. He served as Governor of Manicaland...

operation forced Tshombe to agree to negotiate with Adoula. Tshombe signed the Kitona Declaration on 21 December 1961, agreeing that Katanga was part of the Congo...

dramatist and director; of a heart attack At the U.N. military base at Kitona, in the Congo, Katangan President Moise Tshombe and Congolese Prime Minister...

Congolese Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula. On 21 December 1961 Tshombe signed the Kitona Declaration, an agreement whereby he would recognise the authority of the...

allowed for Belgian metropolitan troops to continue to garrison the bases of Kitona and Kamina until another agreement could arrange the installations' handover...