Word: katanga
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...last the Congolese government seemed aware that it had a problem in Kwilu province. With Army Chief General Joseph Mobutu back on duty after a month-long vacation, 700 green-bereted Congolese commandos from Katanga debarked from planes in the Kwilu capital of Kikwit, began un loading guns and ammunition. The troops had their work cut out for them: a spreading, Communist-aided tribal revolt that has turned...
...tribe, whose members are concentrated not only in Kwilu but also in Unité Kasaienne to the east, and in Kwango province to the west. The government's biggest immediate concern was that they might cut off the Kasai River, through which the Congo's copper from Katanga currently travels to the Atlantic port of Matadi...
...Congo's most serious flare-up since Katanga's stubborn secession finally was crushed a year ago, this latest bloodbath suddenly erupted in early January in Kwilu province, 250 miles east of Leopoldville. Fortnight ago, roving gangs of youths hacked to death three Belgian Roman Catholic priests-one of them bedridden. Directed by Peking-trained Pierre Mulele, onetime Education Minister under the late, left-leaning Patrice Lumumba, the terrorists often donned war paint, loincloths and crude red helmets, cried "Moscow!" and "Russia!" as they burned and looted. Scores of black local officials have been methodically butchered. Four village...
Snakes & Sinews. It is no small honor to be Mwata Yambo of all the Lunda. With a history dating back at least four centuries, and boasting a population of 1,000,000, the tribe spreads from the Congo's Katanga province into both Portuguese Angola and Northern Rhodesia. The Lunda's most illustrious son is Katanga's secessionist leader Moise Tshombe, who married a daughter of Mwata Yambo XXIV. When his father-in-law died last June of a burst bladder, Tshombe for a time was considered as successor. But the tribal elders, suspecting that Moise might...
Shaky Baby. But last week, Thant's scheduled evacuation was causing alarmed protest from the U.S., Britain and Belgium, which doubt the Congo's ability to stand alone. In Katanga province, 15,000 ex-gendarmes of ousted Secessionist Moise Tshombe have vanished into the bush; roaming bands of them stage highway robberies and raid villages to guzzle the local beer stocks. The 30,000-man Congolese army, whose 1960 mutiny ignited the civil war, has produced a nucleus of disciplined officers, thanks to its spunky commander, General Joseph Mobutu; no longer are unarmed civilians shot down at random...