On October 5, the airplane carrying Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe to the opening session of the conference of unaligned nations in Cairo was denied permission to land on the grounds that the ...

As the head of a “government of public welfare,” Moise Tshombe has ruled for eight months without the weight of a Parliament around his neck. What with the rebels in the northeast, nearly half ...

Brassinne said Katanga’s secessionist leaders, headed by its Belgian-appointed president, Moise Tshombe, didn’t know Lumumba was coming until the plane touched down in Elisabethville, now ...

CONGO (See Cover) The tom-tom must beat this night to call our warriors to the fight. Everywhere in the bush the army of warriors must answer this ancestral call. —Moise Tshombe, on the eve of ...

Months had passed since Moise Tshombe and his ministers had tossed in the sponge and Katanga had been formally reintegrated into the Congo, but the old secessionist forms were still in use.

Moise Tshombe, executor of those plans, visited Spain several times between 1963 and 1966, but his only official visit as president of Katanga was in 1965. Much less known than his involvement in ...