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Katanga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Katanga is the southern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regional capital Lubumbashi (formerly Elizabethville). Following the granting of independence to the Congo in June 1960 Katanga broke away from the new government of Patrice Lumumba in July and declared independence under Moise Tshombe. Forces under the leadership of the UN conducted a two-year campaign to return Katanga to the Congo, culminating in the National Conciliation Plan in January 1963. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katanga   (450 words)

Katanga on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Katanga borders Angola on the southwest, Zambia on the southeast, and Lake Tanganyika on the east. Katanga is well connected by rail with the rest of Congo and with Angola and Zambia. Later a considerable number of UN troops, committed to a policy of nonintervention, were stationed in Katanga to oversee the withdrawal of foreign troops. www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Katanga.asp   (759 words)

Katanga - Wikipedia Katanga (früher Shaba) ist eine Provinz im Süden der Demokratischen Republik Kongo. Katanga hat reiche Erzvorkommen von Kupfer, Kobalt (etwa bei Kolwezi) und Uran. Die UNO versuchte durch Verhandlungen Katanga zur Rückkehr zu bewegen, besetzte 1963 das damalige Elisabethville und beendete die Unabhängigkeit mit militärischen Mitteln. de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katanga   (131 words)

Katanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) From the 17th century the province was controlled by the Luba and Lunda.In the late 19th C. a trader from Tanzania called M'Siri, founded a short-livedkingdom that lasted until he was killed by the Belgians in 1891. Following the granting of independence to the Congo in June 1960 Katanga broke away fromthe new government of Patrice Lumumba in July and declaredindependence under Moise Tshombe. Forces under the aegis of the UN conducted a two-year campaign to bring Katanga back into the Congo, culminating in a NationalConciliation Plan in January 1963. www.therfcc.org /katanga-58503.html   (245 words)

Katanga - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Katanga Katanga contains 10% of the world's copper and 50% of the world's cobalt resources. It was the most politically and economically advanced of all the provinces and in July 1960, under the leadership of Moise Tshombe, it seceded from the new republic, calling itself the republic of Katanga until forcibly reintegrated into the Congo, with UN assistance, in January 1962. Subsequently Katanga again exercised a dominant influence when Tshombe became premier of the Congo 1964–65. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Katanga   (202 words)

KATANGA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Katanga was tussen 1960 en 1962 een onafhankelijke staat, na een secessie van Congo. Het was hij die op 11 juli 1960 de onafhankelijkheid van de rijke mijnprovincie uitriep. Nadien kwam Katanga weer bij Congo, en werd weer een provincie van het latere Zaïre. www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/K/Katanga   (74 words)

Katanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Under Belgian control from around 1884 the mineral resources were heavily exploited by Belgian (notably Union Minière du Haut Katanga) and the province developed much more the rest of the country. Following the granting of independence to the in June 1960 Katanga broke away from the new of Patrice Lumumba in July and declared independence under Moise Tshombe. The province Katanga again in 1997 after Mobutu was exiled. www.freeglossary.com /Katanga   (322 words)

Katanga - Wikipédia Le plateau du Katanga accueille de nombreuses fermes d'élevage et d'agriculture. A la suite de l'indépendance de la République démocratique du Congo en juin 1960, le Katanga opéra une céssession du gouvernement de Patrice Lumumba en juillet et déclara son indépendance sous l'impulsion de Moise Tshombe. La province reprit le nom de Katanga en 1997, après l'exil de Mobutu. fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katanga   (407 words)

International Civic Heraldry - CONGO - KATANGA STATE Katanga, the province of the southeast of the democratic Republic of Congo, was connected in 1900 with the Independant State of Congo, and in 1908, with the colony of Belgian Congo. After a long and bloody civil war, the Katanga was reunited again with Congo in January, 1963 with the help of the UN troops. The secessionist Katanga choose a red and white flag with a green bend and accompanied by 3 red monetary crosslets of Katanga as national flag. www.ngw.nl /int/afr/katanga.htm   (277 words)

Violence Ignored in Congo's Katanga | MediaChannel.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Militiamen and local army units in the north of Congo's copper-rich Katanga province have turned their guns on civilians in violence perpetuated by power brokers and ignored by the world, a French medical aid charity says. Brauman was speaking at the launch of "Congo, peace held hostage", an MSF film that documents the burning of villages and rape and killing of civilians in the north Katangan bush. Katanga is a mineral-rich province that grabbed world headlines during a failed attempt at secession in the early 1960s, prompting the first attempt by the United Nations at intervention in the vast African nation. mediachannel.org /blog/node/310   (674 words)

The Bank Notes of Katanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) This book explores the history of the two bank note issues made in Katanga during the period of secession, giving details of all notes issued, the circumstances surrounding their issue and the history of the issuing authority, The National Bank of Katanga. As well as including a short history of Katanga, there are sections that cover the life of Moïse Tshombé (the President of Katanga) and the issue of coins and postage stamps in Katanga. As well as covering the two bank note issues made by Katanga, two other issues are also discussed, these being unissued notes prepared by the British printers 'Waterlow and Sons' and an emergency issue of notes utilizing bank notes originally issued in 'Rwanda and Burundi'. www.pjsymes.com.au /katanga.htm   (372 words)

Global Witness: Violence erupts in mineral rich Katanga yet the international community Government officials announced last Thursday that a town and nearby copper mine in Kilwa, southern Katanga, had been seized by heavily armed gunmen, and reports claim that anywhere between nine and 150 civilians have been killed in the fighting. Despite a push by the World Bank for international investment in Katanga, these latest events reveal that the province is far from stable. “Katanga is of huge potential economic and strategic significance to the DRC”, said Bild, “And yet whilst there has been a presumption of stability in Katanga, and international attention in recent years has been focused mainly on the troubled east and northeast of the country, this situation has been allowed to build up. www.globalwitness.org /press_releases/display2.php?id=264   (431 words)

katanga Later a considerable number of UN troops, ostensibly committed to a policy of non-intervention, were stationed in Katanga to oversee the withdrawal of foreign troops. The UN troops sent to Katanga to snuff out the candle of freedom, and force it back under the despotic communist rule of the Congo, were flown in on US Air Force transport planes. According to many eyewitness accounts, notably the 46 civilian doctors of Elizabethville, who denounced the actions of the troops of the UN forces, in what was a brutal military campaign, the snuffing out of Katanga's freedom was accompanied by a barbarity seldom witnessed. rhodesian.server101.com /katanga.htm   (805 words)

AllRefer.com - Katanga (Democratic Republic Of The Congo Political Geography) - Encyclopedia Katanga, Democratic Republic Of The Congo Political Geography The province encompasses the fertile Katanga Plateau (3,000–6,000 ft/914–1,829 m high), where profitable farming and ranching are carried on. In 1966 the central government nationalized Union MiniEre du Haut Katanga, the Belgian firm that had controlled most of Katanga's mining interests. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Katanga.html   (603 words)

Moise Tshombe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) In the 1950s he took over a chain of stores in the Katanga province and became involved in politics, founding the CONAKAT party which ran under a banner of an independent, federal Congo. In the general elections of 1960, CONAKAT won control of the Katanga provincial legislature. The Christian, pro-Western Tshombe was elected president of Katanga in August of 1960, and declared that "we are seceding from chaos." Favoring continued ties with Belgium, Tshombe asked the Belgian government to send military officers to recruit and train a Katangese army. www.wikiverse.org /moise-tshombe   (410 words)

UN Katanga produced copper, 60% of the world’s uranium and 80% of the world’s industrial diamonds. Adoula asked the United Nations to provide military support for an attack on Katanga as he made it his first task to remove Tshombe, as he believed that while Tshombe was effectively in charge of Katanga, the Congo would never have peace. This lead to Tshombe fleeing the Congo and In January 1963, Katanga was re-united with the rest of the Congo. www.historylearningsite.co.uk /united_nations_congo.htm   (1094 words)

Luba-Katanga language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The Bank Notes of Katanga Bills issued when the independence movement was active. The United Nations and the Congo Article on the UN's intervention in the Katanga crisis in the 1960s. Tension rising in Katanga province Rebeka Martensen of the United Nations Mission to DRC reports on tensions in the region. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Luba-Katanga_language.html   (420 words)

EuropaWorld 11/5/2001 Crisis In Katanga As the cease fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo begins to stabilise families are reported to be emerging slowly from the forests in the north and east of the country, malnourished and almost naked. In the northern province of Katanga, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that a humanitarian crisis is surfacing as desperate men, women and children begin arriving in towns in search of help. He estimated that tens of thousands of people who had been repeatedly forced out of their villages by the conflict around them or who had been trapped deep in the bush by armed militias, were now extremely hungry and malnourished, while hundreds of thousands more were in need of food aid. www.europaworld.org /issue34/crisisinkatanga11501.htm   (459 words)

monuc.org: Tension rising in Katanga province ::: 27/11/2003 In 1992 and 1993, Kasaians were victims of ethnic cleansing by the Mobutu regime in retaliation for the election of Etienne Tshisekedi as prime minister. Katanga is the birthplace of the last two DRC presidents. To nudge the authorities toward a better understanding of the role of a free press during election campaigns, public information staff members from Kananga are collaborating with the human rights section in Lubumbashi to organize a roundtable on freedom of expression in early 2004. www.monuc.org /Story.aspx?storyID=71   (1742 words)

Shaba / Katanga (Rep. Dem. Congo) Katanga is the copper belt of Southern Africa. Their heraldic use is prior to the State of Katanga as they were used in the arms of the Katanga Province of the Belgian Congo and the City of Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi), the capital of Katanga. The arms of Katanga Province were: "vert with three croisettes copper"; as far as I remember the croisettes were always represented as saltires in this case. www.fotw.net /flags/cd-ka.html   (1522 words)

Province du Katanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Katanga, province du sud-est de la République démocratique du Congo, limitée par la Tanzanie à l'est, par la Zambie à l'est et au sud, et par l'Angola à l'ouest. Le Katanga était appelé province du Shaba jusqu'en 1997. Après une guerre civile longue et sanglante, le Katanga, avec l'aide des troupes de l'Organisation des Nations unies, a été réunifié avec le Congo en 1963. www.congo2000.net /geographie/katanga1.htm   (398 words)

monuc.org: Child copper diggers in Katanga ::: 29/04/2004 In Katanga, time is for the rush for copper, a metal whose price has incredibly soared for the past ten years. Their members endeavor to solve conflicts arising between diggers, to ensure that payments are made by the merchants and the activities proceed normally. The firm is overwhelmed and is calling for help and support of the authorities and the international organizations for a better sponsorship for the children. www.monuc.org /StoryPrint.aspx?StoryID=194   (263 words)

ABC News: Annan renews appeal for troops in Congo's Katanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Annan had asked the 15-nation U.N. Security Council for the additional soldiers in August to help Katanga, rich in gold and copper, prepare for elections, beginning with a referendum on a new constitution by the end of the year. But the United States, which pays for over 25 percent of the operation, has made clear its opposition to adding peacekeepers to a mission now costing some $1 billion a year for nearly 17,000 troops in the vast central African country. Some 11 million people have registered to vote nationwide to date among the 30 million eligible, a record in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country still beset by violence, poverty and hunger. abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1162252   (357 words)

Europaworld 21/12/2001 Food Goes By Rail in Katanga WFP report that trains are once again running along the Kalemie railway in the eastern province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after the successful completion of a WFP food-for-work project. Running from Kalemie, WFP's operational hub in rebel-held Katanga in eastern DRC to Niemba in the west, the railway will allow the Agency to shift urgently-needed emergency food aid to therapeutic feeding centres in isolated communities where children are dying from severe malnutrition, say WFP. The rich, fertile province of Katanga was once the food basket of the Congo, delivering food to markets throughout the country. www.europaworld.org /issue62/foodgoes211201.htm   (211 words)

Encyclopedia: Katanga Flag of Katanga during its period of independence. This article is about minerals in the geologic sense; for nutrient minerals see dietary mineral; for the band see Mineral (band). General info: Large flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Dimensions: 453x302 pixels Source: Image originally derived from the public domain flags of the CIA World Factbook License: Originally public domain, modifications under GFDL Most of the flags have had their colours improved and many have been resized to... www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Katanga   (1615 words)

katanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) La province du Katanga est située dans le sud-est de la République Démocratique du Congo (limitée par les parallèles 5-13,5° S et par les méridiens 22-29,8° E). Comme les trois quarts du continent africain, le Katanga présente des affleurements rocheux appartenant au soubassement cristallin précambrien (gneiss, granite et schiste) et aux sédiments (surtout sableux) du pliopléistocène. Au Katanga, on distingue deux types de feu : le feu hâtif (début de la saison sèche) et le feu tardif (du début juillet au début de la saison des pluies). www.br.fgov.be /RESEARCH/COLLECTIONS/HERBARIUMS/SP/katanga.html   (1072 words)

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