• Anicet Kashamura, Secretary of State Antoine-Roger Bolamba, and Secretary of State Jacques Lumbala. The 37-strong Lumumba Government was very diverse, with...
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    The Lumumba Government (French: Gouvernement Lumumba), also known as the Lumumba Ministry or Lumumba Cabinet, was the first set of ministers, ministers...
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    Bernardin Mungul Diaka (category Governors of provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    started his career as the director of Minister of Defence Patrice Lumumba in 1960. After the Dissolution of the Lumumba Government by President Joseph Kasavubu...
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    Katangese Gendarmerie (category Rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    bands of Baluba. In the resulting conflict both belligerents committed numerous atrocities. During the dissolution of the Lumumba Government, the Belgian...
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    and the United States, deposed the democratically elected government of left-wing nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1960. Mobutu installed a government that...
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    the midst of the Congo Crisis, many of his supporters became disillusioned with the government in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa). Under Lumumba's...
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    Air Force. Although the rebellion was conceived as an opposition to Patrice Lumumba's central government, it continued even after the democratically elected...
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    portfolio in Lumumba's national government. Kalonji refused Lumumba's offer of the Agriculture portfolio. Mukenge attempted to form a government of unity, even...
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    Congolese government forces fully defeated the Simba rebels by November 1965. Lumumba had previously appointed Mobutu chief of staff of the new Congo...
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    Kwilu rebellion (category Communism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    rebel leader of the Kwilu rebellion, had previously served as minister of education within Patrice Lumumba’s government. When Lumumba was assassinated...
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    intelligence for the president and Cabinet. The agency's founding followed the dissolution of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at the end of World War...
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    dismissal of the democratically elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and the Lumumba cabinet in September over massacres by the armed forces during the invasion...
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  • to replace him. The National Assembly refused to recognize the new government and a crisis, which ended with the dissolution of the Assembly and new...
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  • with the Leopoldville government under the latter's rule, however in 1963, Lumumba supporters formed another separate government in the east of the country...
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    Portuguese colonial empire. Tito saw the murder of Patrice Lumumba by Belgian-backed Katangan separatists in 1961 as the "greatest crime in contemporary history"...
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    Africa–Soviet Union relations (category Foreign relations of the Soviet Union)
    rival government, the "Free Republic of the Congo", was founded in the eastern city of Stanleyville by Lumumba supporters, led by Antoine Gizenga. The Kremlin...
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    world stage. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing...
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    Mobutism (category Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    based on the ideas of former prime minister Patrice Lumumba Young, Crawford; Turner, Thomas. The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State. University of Wisconsin...
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    (Nigeria), Patrice Lumumba (DRC) and Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Côte d'Ivoire) came to lead the struggles for African nationalism. During the Second World War...
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  • supported the National Liberation Front in Algeria against France. In 1964, Cuba supported the Simba Rebellion of adherents of Patrice Lumumba in Congo-Leopoldville...
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    Patrice Lumumba in South Africa, in which he described the suffering of the Congolese under Belgian colonialism and the negatives that lay behind the pageantry...
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    A coup d'état, often abbreviated to coup, is the overthrow of a lawful government through illegal means. If force or violence are not involved, such an...
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    Congolese forces loyal to Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who was supported by the Soviet Union. ... The Katangan secession was ultimately unsuccessful...
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    Authenticité (Zaire) (category Congolese nationalism (Democratic Republic of the Congo))
    ISBN 978-2-262-04953-9, 169. "Jean-Pierre Langellier: «si Mobutu avait voulu sauver Lumumba, il aurait pu»". RFI (in French). 15 May 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2022...
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    Soviet involvement in regime change (category Foreign relations of the Soviet Union)
    began getting support from the US. Many politicians who had been allied to Lumumba were forced out of government. Many Lumumba-allied politicians began...
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  • split. Mau Mau Uprising ends. The Beatles form in Liverpool. January 17: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba begins the Congo Crisis. January 20: John...
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  • to assassinate the newly independent Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, the US enabled Mobutu Sese Seko to take power. The OPS spent $5 million...
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    Foreign interventions by Cuba (category Foreign relations of Cuba)
    that took power of the DRC following the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. The Tshombe government was supported by the United States and South Africa. In...
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    gradually dimmed during the next few months. When Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated, Khrushchev blamed it on Western colonialist forces. Khrushchev's...
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