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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 of the secessionist State of Katanga from 1960 to 1963 and as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1964 to 1965.
Moise Tshombe was a politician, president of the secessionist African state of Katanga, and premier of the united Congo Republic (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) who took advantage of an armed mutiny to announce the secession of mineral-rich Katanga province in July 1960.
Apr 17, 2020 · Moise Tshombe was a foe of Lumumba who insisted that the resources of the Congo especially Katanga benefit the Congolese people. He was killed for this.
Two important figures in the history of the country now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Mobutu Sese Seko, who served as President, and Moise Tshombe, who served as Prime...
Aug 16, 2009 · Moïse Kapenda Tshombe was the president of Katanga, once a secessionist state of Congo immediately after the country’s independence in 1960. Tshombe was born in 1919 in the southern region of Katanga.
May 31, 2021 · In 1969, Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui characterised Moïse Tshombe, the president of the secessionist State of Katanga, in the following terms: There was little doubt that Tshombe was, in personality, political adroitness and intellectual calculation, a bigger man than ever [Congolese Prime Minister Patrice] Lumumba was.
May 23, 2018 · Moïse Kapenda Tshombe (1919-1969), a Congolese political leader, was the figurehead of the Katanga secession. His chief stock-in-trade was his cynical reliance on foreign-interest groups and white mercenaries.
"Moise Tshombe" published on by null. (1920–69)African leader in the Belgian Congo. He founded the Conakat political party, which advocated an independent but loosely federal Congo.
After the rebellions end, Moïse Tshombe forms a government of national reconciliation to reunite the Congolese and pacify the country. A new, federal constitution authorizes multipartyism and organizes the country into 21 'provincettes' corresponding to the former colonial districts.
Moise Tshombe led the effort but gained no diplomatic recognition for his state. When the United Nations intervened by force in 1962 and 1963, the effort collapsed and he fled to Spain. Moise-Kapenda Tshombe was born to wealthy parents in Musumba, Belgian Congo, on Nov. 10, 1919.
