Word: katangan
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...Katanga, on talking about "mercenaries" and "white-officered troops." And what do you mean by "white"? South Africans, Rhodesians, Congo Belgians, Algerian French born and bred in Africa, probably for two, three or more generations, who have lived and worked their whole life in Africa, are Africans. A white Katangan of Belgian extraction can have the genuine patriotism for Katanga that an American Negro or American of Polish extraction can have for America...
...head off further intervention by Russia or Belgium, he asked the Council formally to call on all outside countries to cease unilateral aid. To head off Lumumba's wild adventures, he sought authority to disarm all military groups-both Congolese and Katangan-and negotiate a settlement of the Congo's internal differences...