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...liberation movements' presence there. More important politically is the headquarters of the African Liberation Committee, located appropriately enough on Independence Avenue. The Liberation Committee, better known as the Committee of Nine because of its nine member nations, was set up by the Organization of African Unity at the Addis Ababa Conference in 1963 to coordinate and give financial aid to the "freedom fighters" of the non-independent states. The committee meets regularly to hear petitions from the independence movements and to appropriate funds donated by the African states...
Foreign ministers of the 34-nation Organization of African Unity met in Addis Ababa last week to ponder "an African solution" to the agonizing Congo rebellion. The session had been called at the request of the Congo, whose controversial Premier Moise Tshombe had come under heavy attack for hiring white mercenary troops-but found himself unable to contain the rebel advances without outside help of some sort. What Tshombe wanted was African troops for police duty in pacified areas in order to free his own harried Congolese army to fight the rebels. As he told the delegates: "Such an arrangement...
Clawless Cat. The assembly turned out to be most reluctant to fulfill his request. Most delegates, in fact, had come to Addis Ababa convinced that Tshombe was a traitor to Africa's cause, and that the Congo's crisis was essentially an ideological battle between patriots and traitors. Not so, declared Tshombe during five days of debate, insisting that the real problem was the complete breakdown of law and order that followed the Belgian departure in 1960-which the Communists have been able to turn to their advantage...
...Tshombe inspected the ravaged city, he grew so emotional that at one point he stopped to embrace a Belgian priest who had survived the ordeal. He also gathered some much-needed evidence to present to the Organization of African Unity at its emergency Congo conference in Addis Ababa. To reply to the inevitable demand that he get rid of his white mercenary troops, Tshombe needed solid proof that the rebels were indeed bad medicine for the Congo. At Albertville, he picked up at least three valuable exhibits: a series of photographs showing the rebels executing leading citizens, a 22-year...
Operation Comeback," charged that the defendants had mapped detailed plans for a Communist-backed "war of liberation" modeled on guerrilla campaigns in China, Cuba and Algeria, to be followed by an air and sea invasion of African shock troops trained in closely guarded camps near Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa, Cairo and Algiers. He also tried to prove that Umkonto was the "military arm" of the supposedly nonviolent African National Congress...