Word: shaba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have long maintained an intensive web of cultural, economic and occasionally military relationships with their former colonies as well as several other African states. In recent months their troops have been reinforcing governments in Chad and Mauritania against guerrillas. Last year they provided air support to halt the first Shaba invasion. This time, with Belgian help, they quickly organized the airlift to rescue the 3,000 Europeans trapped in Kolwezi...
Throughout Africa, reaction to the rescue operation was relatively restrained. The French-speaking countries were, as a whole, delighted. White South Africans argued that apart from demonstrating the "savagery" of Africa, the Shaba invasion and the Kolwezi massacre had awakened the West to the threat of Marxist involvement in Africa. Many black leaders seemed far less outraged than they had been in late 1964, when the West mounted a similar rescue mission to save 1,300 whites stranded in Stanleyville (now Kisangani) during the Congo's Simba rebellion. But they were still acutely aware that the enduring problem was that...
...convinced that Leonid Brezhnev wants to reach such an agreement, and his time is running short. They also think the Russians are as uneasy as either the Americans or the British themselves would be at the thought of being drawn into an African military quagmire, be it in Shaba, Eritrea or Timbuktu...
Kolwezi was a city of the dead. Almost as swiftly as it had begun, the seven-day battle for control of the industrial heart of Zaïre's copper-rich Shaba province ended last week. Driven from the city by the hard-fighting paratroopers of France's Foreign Legion (see box), an estimated 2,000 Katangese rebels faded back into the bush, retreating toward their home bases in eastern Angola. The paratroopers took up new positions at Lubumbashi, 160 miles away, turning over their guard duty to Zaïrian troops loyal to President Mobutu Sese Seko...
...weeks before authorities can determine the final death toll for "Shaba II," as Western diplomats called the incursion. At least 80 whites and 200 blacks were brutally massacred by the invading rebels of the Congolese National Liberation Front (F.N.L.C.). The total could run higher: abandoning the city, the guerrillas took a number of Europeans hostage. At week's end their fate was unknown...