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    Joseph Kasa-Vubu, alternatively Joseph Kasavubu, (c. 1915 – 24 March 1969) was a Congolese politician who served as the first President of the Democratic...
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  • initial plan to remove Lumumba would start with Congo's then-president, Joseph Kasavubu, to dissolve the government after a vote of no confidence from two...
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    before independence, saw Patrice Lumumba become prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu president. In 1965 Mobutu Sese Seko seized power and declared himself...
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  • Congo's sovereignty, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Joseph Kasavubu petitioned the United Nations for assistance in "protect[ing] the national...
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  • everything to stop a rebellion in Rhodesia. October 13 – Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government...
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    fired Kasavubu. Congo's Army Chief of Staff Joseph Mobutu sent troops to place Lumumba under house arrest while contemplating the future of Kasavubu's regime...
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    the Republican Guard.The constitutional mandate of the then president, Joseph Kabila, was due to expire on 20 December 2016 but was initially extended...
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  • Congolese independence. While in Brussels, Lumumba first meets Joseph Kasa-Vubu (spelled Kasavubu in the film), a fellow independence-minded politician from...
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    its reach until it could operate from a mobile airstrip. President Joseph Kasavubu of the Congo suspended the parliament indefinitely, after more than...
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    Kasa-Vubu, Kinshasa, a district of Kinshasa named in honour of Joseph Kasa-Vubu Kasavubu (wrestler), American professional wrestler This disambiguation...
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  • revolution led by the military or by civilians. The Congo Crisis. President Joseph Kasavubu and Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba attempted to dismiss each other...
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  • Gerhardsen as prime minister of Norway. October 13 - Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government...
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  • elections produced the nationalist Patrice Lumumba as prime minister, and Joseph Kasavubu as president. On independence the country adopted the name "Republic...
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  • November 22 – The United Nations supports the government of Joseph Kasavubu and Joseph Mobutu in the Republic of the Congo. November 26 – 1960 New Zealand...
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    Ethiopia, at Independence Day celebrations for Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Kasavubu of the Congo, President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and for Albert Schweitzer...
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    discontent, alongside political infighting and hostility towards President Joseph Kasavubu, resulted in the struggle for power and resulting Congo crisis. Prior...
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  • fired Kasavubu. Congo's Army Chief of Staff Joseph Mobutu sent troops to place Lumumba under house arrest while contemplating the future of Kasavubu's regime...
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  • 1898) March 15 – Miles Malleson, English actor (b. 1888) March 24 – Joseph Kasavubu, 1st President of Congo-Léopoldville (b. 1917) March 25 – Max Eastman...
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    Élisabethville were undertaken by Malagasy President Philibert Tsiranana. Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Joseph Iléo and Cyrille Adoula of the central authorities met with the...
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    President Joseph Kasavubu, the other by Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the United Nations General Assembly voted 53–24 in favor of seating Kasavubu's group...
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    Hedgehog video games for the Sega Genesis in the 1990s Congo's President Joseph Kasavubu fired Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and formed a provisional government...
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  • successfully predicted the crisis appointment of Moise Tshombe by Joseph Kasavubu, then President of Congo. He briefed a high-level CIA conclave about...
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  • Reuters Archive Licensing. Pathé, British. "Congo-Kinshasa: Funeral Of Joseph Kasavubu". www.britishpathe.com. Pathé, British. "India: Thousands Mourn The...
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    2002, p. 86. Swarthmore 2012. Reuters 1959b. Zeilig 2008, pp. 70–73. "Joseph Kasavubu Dies in Congo; Was His Nation's First President" (PDF). The New York...
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    and nine of his 18 field commanders. In the Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu named Joseph Ileo as the Prime Minister in an interim government. Ileo was...
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    Democratic Republic of the Congo after his nomination by President Joseph Kasavubu was confirmed by the parliament in a closed session in Leopoldville...
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    as the new Congolese Prime Minister by his former enemy, President Joseph Kasavubu, who fired Premier Cyrille Adoula, who fled into exile. Tshombe, brought...
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    74, German Luftwaffe leader John P. Marquand, 66, American author Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba, unhappy with the United Nations' progress in pressuring...
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    decided to transform the Republic of Congo into a confederation, led by Joseph Kasavubu. But this mediation was in vain, since the conflict soon resumed. If...
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    racer and 2002 and 2003 World Cup gold medalist; in Brixlegg Died: Joseph Kasavubu, 53, first President of the Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1965...
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