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The Congo-Zaire experience, 1960-98 / Edgar O'Ballance.
Publication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.Description: p. cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0312227957 :
- DT658 .O28 1999
Contents:
Summary: This is the exciting saga of the second largest country in Africa, one which has had a full experience of civil wars, tribal uprisings, revolts, plots against Presidents, and separatist invasions since being suddenly plunged into independence in 1960. The book examines how a UN force stepped in to prevent the mineral-rich province of Katanga from breaking away, staying for nearly four years, after which quarrelling war lords fought for central power. In 1965 Mobutu came to power ruling as a dictator of his Single Party State, until he was finally toppled in 1997 by a Tutsi-back invasion force led by Kabila.
The Belgian Congo -- Independence and Clashing Personalities -- Lumumba the Legend: 1960-61 -- ONUC versus Katanga and Others: 1961-92 -- Prime Minister Tshombe -- The NLC in Retreat -- Plots, Mutiny and Revolt -- The First Invasion of Shaba: 1977 -- The Second Invasion of Shaba -- The Single Party State -- Genocide in Burundi and Rwanda -- The End of the Mobutu Era -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bleak Prospects.
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| DT 655 .H63 1999 King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror and heroism in Colonial frica / | DT 658 .K475 2012 Civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010 / | DT 658 .N43 1967a Challenge of the Congo. | DT 658 .O28 1999 The Congo-Zaire experience, 1960-98 / | DT 658.22 .L44 1965 Crisis in the Congo : a United Nations force in action / | DT 658.22 .L85 W5813 2002 The assassination of Lumumba / | DT 658.26 .P78 2009 Africa's world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Belgian Congo -- Independence and Clashing Personalities -- Lumumba the Legend: 1960-61 -- ONUC versus Katanga and Others: 1961-92 -- Prime Minister Tshombe -- The NLC in Retreat -- Plots, Mutiny and Revolt -- The First Invasion of Shaba: 1977 -- The Second Invasion of Shaba -- The Single Party State -- Genocide in Burundi and Rwanda -- The End of the Mobutu Era -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bleak Prospects.
This is the exciting saga of the second largest country in Africa, one which has had a full experience of civil wars, tribal uprisings, revolts, plots against Presidents, and separatist invasions since being suddenly plunged into independence in 1960. The book examines how a UN force stepped in to prevent the mineral-rich province of Katanga from breaking away, staying for nearly four years, after which quarrelling war lords fought for central power. In 1965 Mobutu came to power ruling as a dictator of his Single Party State, until he was finally toppled in 1997 by a Tutsi-back invasion force led by Kabila.
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