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    Moïse Kapenda Tshombe (sometimes written Tshombé; 10 November 1919 – 29 June 1969) was a Congolese businessman and politician. He served as the president...
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    partisans, tortured and executed by the separatist Katangan authorities of Moïse Tshombe. He was seen as a martyr for the pan-African movement. In 2002, Belgium...
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    compromise constitution was adopted and the exiled Katangese leader, Moïse Tshombe, was recalled to head an interim administration while fresh elections...
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    Adoula, and install a new government led by Moïse Tshombe. The U.S. and Belgian leadership believed that Tshombe was supportive of their interests as well...
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  • parties 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...
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    proclaimed its independence from Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe, leader of the local Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga...
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  • politician Moïse Rahmani (1944–2016), Egyptian-born Belgian-Congo then Belgian Jewish author Moïse Schwab (1839–1918), French librarian Moïse Tshombe (1919–1969)...
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  • was caused by the political impasse between President Kasa-Vubu and Moïse Tshombe, which threatened to develop into a violent confrontation and destabilize...
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    leadership of Prime Minister Moïse Tshombe from 1964 to 1965. On 6 July 1964 President Joseph Kasa-Vubu named Moïse Tshombe formateur of a new provisional...
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  • Algerian War) beat back these efforts. They had been brought in by Moïse Tshombe, Katanga's premier, whose secessionist government had been supported...
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    needed] Shortly after independence, the provinces of Katanga (with Moise Tshombe) and South Kasai engaged in secessionist struggles against the new leadership...
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    as the army's mutiny and the secession of the Katanga Province under Moïse Tshombe created the Congo Crisis. Adoula increasingly distanced himself from...
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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...
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  • This party consisted mostly of Southern Katangese people, including Moïse Tshombe and Godefroid Munongo. He was the only MP of his party to vote the investiture...
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    leadership of Moïse Tshombe. Hoare chronicled his time in the country in his book The Road to Kalamata. In 1964, then-Prime Minister of Congo Tshombe hired Major...
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  • 1928 – 5 October 2014) was a Belgian civil servant who represented Moïse Tshombe, President of the unrecognized State of Katanga, in the United States...
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  • mercenaries and "an African president" believed to have been a dying Moïse Tshombe. In 1980, McLaglen and Lloyd produced The Sea Wolves, with several returning...
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    others. Hammarskjöld had been en route to ceasefire negotiations with Moïse Tshombe during the Congo Crisis. Three official inquiries failed to conclusively...
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    achieved independence in 1960, Katanga seceded under the leadership of Moïse Tshombe. Kabila organised the Baluba in an anti-secessionist rebellion in Manono...
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    Congo with the State of Katanga, which had declared independence under Moïse Tshombe with Belgian support in 1960. Though initially limiting its actions...
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    Phyllis Sims, an airline stewardess. In 1964, Congolese Prime Minister Moïse Tshombe, his employer in Katanga, hired Hoare to command a military unit named...
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  • was acquitted, the other got six years. Aerial hijackers delivered Moise Tshombe to an Algerian jail in July 1967. His wife turned to "one of the few...
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    Albert Ndele Justin Bomboko Antoine Gizenga‡ Joseph Iléo Cyrille Adoula Moïse Tshombe Évariste Kimba Léonard Mulamba Republic of Zaire (1971–1997) Mpinga...
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  • film then jumps back to the late 1950s as Lumumba has a debate with Moïse Tshombe and Godefroid Munongo, rival politicians from the ethnically-nationalist...
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    mineral-rich region. The State of Katanga under self-proclaimed President Moïse Tshombe, however, failed to defend its independence during the Congo Crisis...
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  • Belgian colonial civil servant who later became the Chef de cabinet of Moïse Tshombe, President of the unrecognized State of Katanga. Bartelous was born...
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    Congo during the tenure of Moïse Tshombe as a prime minister. von Müllenheim-Rechberg would later write a book about Tshombe's kidnapping by Francis Bodenan...
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    ABAKO and the MNC—Kalonji; the centralist MNC—Lumumba; and that of Moïse Tshombe, the strong-man of Katanga, who wanted to preserve the economic vitality...
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  • On 30 June 1960, the Congo became independent and shortly thereafter Moise Tshombe declared the secession of the Katanga Province. Kimba played an active...
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    Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, and the Katanga leader Moïse Tshombe. Abbé undoubtedly brought them together in order to isolate the Congolese...
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