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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...

proclaimed its independence from Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe, leader of the local Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga...

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...

compromise constitution was adopted and the exiled Katangese leader, Moïse Tshombe, was recalled to head an interim administration while fresh elections...

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...

of the Congo to support the secession of the Katangan province under Moise Tshombe, which began the Congo Crisis. Due to this intervention in the Congo's...

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...

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...

As the mineral rich State of Katanga secedes under the leadership of Moise Tshombe, United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld assigns Conor Cruise...

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...

politician Moïse Rahmani (1944–2016), Egyptian-born Belgian-Congo then Belgian Jewish author Moïse Schwab (1839–1918), French librarian Moïse Tshombe (1919–1969)...

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...

On 30 June 1960, the Congo became independent and shortly thereafter Moise Tshombe declared the secession of the Katanga Province. Kimba played an active...

as the army's mutiny and the secession of the Katanga Province under Moïse Tshombe created the Congo Crisis. Adoula increasingly distanced himself from...

achieved independence in 1960, Katanga seceded under the leadership of Moïse Tshombe. Kabila organised the Baluba in an anti-secessionist rebellion in Manono...

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...

1928 – 5 October 2014) was a Belgian civil servant who represented Moïse Tshombe, President of the unrecognized State of Katanga, in the United States...

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...

Zaïre". Shortly after independence, the provinces of Katanga (with Moise Tshombe) and South Kasai engaged in secessionist struggles against the new leadership...

Republic of the Congo) gained independence from Belgium, the UMHK, Moise Tshombe and Godefroid Munongo supported the secession of Katanga province from...