Word: kivu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Mwamikazi Bujana Elisabeth Mwakamarongu, venerable regent of some 250,000 Neweshe Bashi tribesmen of the Congo's Kivu province; after a long illness; in Ngweshe, Kivu. Her age, according to her great-grandson, King Pierre Ndatabaye, "certainly more than 100, probably around...
...Gizenga's secessionist Stanleyville regime. Now, with Gizenga's authority broken, the ragtag little army roamed aimlessly through the eastern Congo, with few leaders and no purpose. They needed no excuse to kill; these were the men who pounced on the 13 Italian U.N. airplane crewmen in Kivu Province last November and hacked them to pieces simply because they were whites...
...peace elsewhere in Katanga, they were hundreds of miles away from isolated Kongolo. And reports of incidents were already trickling in from other parts of the eastern Congo. U.N. reconnaissance pilots reported that they saw burning buildings at Sola, a tiny mission station north of Kongolo; far away, in Kivu Province, another group of the rampaging troops clashed with local police at the town of Bagira, and four Africans lay dead when the smoke cleared; still more trouble was reported at the town of Kindu, where five whites were reported killed...
...Rumor. Fortnight ago, several hundred Congolese army troops arrived at the Lualaba River port town of Kindu in Kivu Province, an area of the eastern Congo lightly controlled by local authorities and protected only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were...
...Leopoldville. No one died, though a nun whose breasts were badly burned with lighted cigarettes wakes up at night screaming at the memory. The U.S. last week protested the "outrages" and demanded that the culprits be brought to justice. But 250 missionaries were still trapped in Kivu...