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...happened and has assessed the development in a wide range of major pieces, including cover stories on Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Guinea's President Sékou Touré, Kenya's Independence Leader Tom Mboya, Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and Katanga's secessionist President Moise Tshombe. This week TIME wraps it all up in a brief but thorough guide to the cultural, political and economic state of 27 countries in the new Africa...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 76%. Little comprehension of self-government. President Fulbert Youlou, a high-living priest and close ally of Katanga's Tshombe, tolerates no opposition; is friendly...
...Adoula has deposed and jailed the worst regional extremists, notably erratic Antoine Gizenga, who almost made Eastern Province a Communist preserve last year, and zany "King" Albert Kalonji of South Kasai. But Adoula still has not rid himself of the biggest headache of all, stubborn President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province, who has a firm grip on the Congo's copper-rich southeast corner and refuses to share its $50 million annual revenue with the rest of the nation...
Gaining Repose. For months, Adoula and Tshombe have been negotiating bitterly in Leopoldville on schemes intended to bring Katanga back into the Congo. U.N. officials have pleaded, cajoled and threatened the two sides to find common ground for a deal. Wearily, Adoula offered repeated concessions, such as a revised constitution to give Katanga greater local autonomy in a federal Congo. But Tshombe wanted all or nothing: virtual independence for Katanga, his own gendarmery, and a corps of foreign mercenaries to run it. While he still would not agree to divvy up the copper profits with the Central government, Tshombe announced...
Hints of Force. In Elisabethville, Tshombe blithely made plans to celebrate Katanga's own independence day-July 11, marking the date in 1960 when the province seceded. The U.N.'s Congo chief, patient Robert Gardiner, is increasingly exasperated at the deadlock, has dropped strong hints that his units will put down Tshombe and take over Katanga by force if the wily Moise breaks off negotiations entirely. In Manhattan the U.N.'s Acting Secretary-General U Thant declared that his Congo commanders "have been told to be very much on the alert...