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Katanga secedes
11 Jul 1960 — Backed by Belgium’s Union Minière, Moïse Tshombe declares the copper-rich south independent. A secession defending a mining fortune, not a nation — the UN’s first war will take four years to end it.
This is one scene of Chapter 6 — The Congo Crisis in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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