Katanga Province - Wikipedia
网页Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut …
State of Katanga - Wikipedia
网页The State of Katanga (French: État du Katanga; Swahili: Nchi Ya Katanga), also known as the Republic of Katanga, was a breakaway state that proclaimed its independence from Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe, leader of the local Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga (CONAKAT) political party. The new ...
History of Katanga - Wikipedia
网页On 11 July 1960, Katanga broke away from the new Congolese government of Patrice Lumumba, declaring independence under Moise Tshombe, leader of a local party, the CONAKAT (Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga: Federation of Katanga tribal associations).
Congo in Crisis: The Rise and Fall of Katangan Secession
网页On July 11, 1960, less than two weeks after the country formally gained independence, a politician named Moise Tshombe declared the southernmost province of the Congo to be an independent nation called the State of Katanga.
Katanga: The Congo’s Forgotten Crisis - Crisis Group
网页2006年1月9日 · Katanga province is one of the most violent yet neglected regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most of its problems are the same as those that are systemic in the rest of the country but it needs urgent attention because it is both the heartland of national politics and the nation’s most mineral-rich province, a potential …
Katanga | Copperbelt, Belgian Congo, Congo Free State | Britannica
网页Katanga, historical region in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering Lake Tanganyika to the east, Zambia to the south, and Angola to the west. The name Shaba, the region’s name during the Zairean period, comes from the Swahili word for copper, and the region’s mines yield most of.
网页Katanga, a former province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has experienced several periods of violent social and political upheaval since the colonial era. Multiple cleavages, Katanga’s mineral wealth, local obsessions with autochthony and autonomy ambitions, have all been sources of tension.
Katanga: Tensions in DRC's Mineral Heartland | Crisis Group
网页Only weeks after independence in 1960, Moïse Tshombe’s National Confederation of Katanga (CONAKAT), supported by Belgian and U.S. interests, declared secession. The ensuing crisis prompted the first UN deployment of peacekeepers to DRC and was a defining moment in the country’s early turmoil.
Katanga: The forgotten province of DR Congo - Al Jazeera
网页2014年4月3日 · The capital of Katanga province Lubumbashi, was attacked by rebels late last year. The story was hardly reported by the international media. So how to tell the world the unreported stories?
Katanga | province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
网页Katanga, historical region in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering Lake Tanganyika to the east, Zambia to the south, and Angola to the west.