Word: godefroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether Kasavubu could get away with it was a good question, for Tshombe was far more powerful than any of his predecessors had ever been. Minutes after Kasavubu's announcement, Tshombe's tough Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo issued his own communiqué: Tshombe would not allow himself to be fired, intended to stay in office at least until the new National Assembly is seated June...
...government had been utterly unable to print and deliver the 10.5 million separate ballots required to enable Leopoldville's 160,000 registered voters to elect six national Assemblymen and seven Senators. At last Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo admitted defeat, announced the election would be held the following day instead. Seeking a scapegoat, he ordered Electoral Commission President Joseph Nsiku arrested on charges of sabotage...
...Lubaya, a key official in the Communist-backed National Liberation Committee, which runs the Congo's endemic provincial rebellions. Recognizing the dangers of giving more portfolios to potential enemies, Tshombe took the ministries of Foreign Trade, Planning, Information and Foreign Affairs for himself, named his old Katanga henchman Godefroid Munongo to head the Interior and Civil Service ministries...
Tshombe was speaking not only for himself. A powerful faction inside his Cabinet, led by tough Godefroid Munongo, Katanga's Minister of the Interior, refused any compromise whatever with the central Congolese regime. On the other side were Katanga's Baluba tribesmen-many of them displaced by the war and living precariously in U.N. refugee camps-whose leaders hate Tshombe and demand not secession but union with the Congo; the Baluba represent half of all Katanga's people...
This was war, and although Katanga's President Moise Tshombe was away in Paris, Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo proclaimed: "We are all here, resolved to fight and to die if necessary. The United Nations may take our cities. There will remain our villages and the bush. All the tribal chiefs are alerted. We are savages; we are Negroes. So be it. We shall fight like savages with our arrows...