The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirms that several African presidents with lengthy tenures first came to power through freedom movements. Over time, many used harsh tactics to secure their authority ...

CIA Director, Allen Dulles, labelled him “a Castro in Africa.” President Eisenhower reportedly gave the order for his assassination. In classified 1960 cables and memos, Lumumba was ...

Condemning Tshombe who was believed to have collaborated with Belgium and the United States to murder Lumumba, Malcolm said passionately: “If there’s the worst African that was ever born, it ...

On the other hand, the Secretary General had travelled to the Congo but met with resistance from Tshombe, who was heading a secessionist movement that would sever the province of Katanga from the ...

From 1960 to present day, 11 dates that explain the conflict in the DRC Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict ...

The day after the mutiny, Katanga seceded under the leadership of Moïse Tshombe, an independence fighter and prime minister of the Congo-Kinshasa province from July 1964 to October 1965.

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 ...

The Belgians backed the secessionist leader, Moise Tshombe, with troops and weapons. Katanga held more than 60% of the country’s natural resources—minerals that were extracted by corporations ...

In 1961 Hoare met Moise Tshombe, president of the State of Katanga, a short-lived breakaway republic from the former Belgian colony Congo-Leopoldville (now Democratic Republic of the Congo).

In January 1961, the Belgians and the Americans arranged to hand over to Moise Tshombe in Katanga, Patrice Lumumba, the inconvenient post-colonial Prime Minister of the country now known as the ...