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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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    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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    Belgian partisans, 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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    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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  • 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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  • librarian Moïse Tshombe (1919–1969), president of Katanga and prime minister of the DRC Moïse Vauquelin (fl. 1650–1670), French buccaneer Anthony Moise, Dominican...
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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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    Liberation in Kivu, inspired by the late Patrice Lubumba. In 1964, Moïse Tshombe returned from self-exile in Spain and declared himself as the only person...
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    Zaïre". 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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  • mercenaries and "an African president" believed to have been a dying Moïse Tshombe. McLaglen and Lloyd would go on to produce The Sea Wolves with several...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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, formerly exiled president of the secessionist State of Katanga, Moïse Tshombe, returns to Léopoldville and promises to fix the political situation...
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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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    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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    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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  • Hunter Michael Xavier – Hellemans Sara Soulié – Hanna Hakeem Kae-Kazim – Moïse Tshombe Cian Barry – Wieschhoff Colin Salmon – Ralph Bunche Barlaga, Marta (2024-01-24)...
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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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    he supported a UN operation that prevented the secession of Katanga. Moïse Tshombe, leader of Katanga, declared its independence from the Congo and the...
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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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  • As the mineral rich State of Katanga secedes under the leadership of Moise Tshombe, United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld assigns Conor Cruise...
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  • Republic of the Congo. It was formed and led by then Prime Minister, Moïse Tshombe. It consisted of a bloc of forty-nine parties from among the more than...
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  • Quinlan, was attacked by Katanga Gendarmerie troops loyal to President Moïse Tshombe and the State of Katanga. Quinlan's lightly armed company was besieged...
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    Congo under the leadership of Moïse Tshombe. Hoare chronicled his exploits in his book the Road to Kalamata. In 1964, Tshombe (then Prime Minister of Congo)...
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    its secession from the Republic of the Congo under the leadership of Moise Tshombe. The state also represented Belgian mining interests. The State of Katanga...
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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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