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International Congo Society
Association internationale du Congo
1879–1885
Flag
Capital
Boma
Government
Corporatocracy
Owner
Chairman
Plenipotentiary
Historical era
New Imperialism
• Established
17 November 1879
• Flag recognised
10 April 1884
• Sovereignty recognised
8 November 1884
• Free State established
1 July 1885
ISO 3166 code
CG
Preceded by
Succeeded by
International African Association
Congo Free State
Today part of
Democratic Republic of Congo
The International Association of the Congo (French: Association internationale du Congo), also known as the International Congo Society, was an association founded on 17 November 1879 by Leopold II of Belgium to further his interests in the Congo.[1][dubious – discuss] It replaced the Belgian Committee for Studies of the Upper Congo (Comité d'Études du Haut-Congo [fr])[2] which was part of the International African Association front organisation created for the exploitation of the Congo. The goals of the International Congo Society was to establish control of the Congo Basin and to exploit its economic resources.[3] The Berlin Conference recognised the society as sovereign over the territories it controlled and on August 1, 1885, i.e. four and half months after the closure of the Berlin Conference, King Leopold's Vice-Administrator General in the Congo, announced that the society and the territories it occupied were henceforth called "the Congo Free State".[4][5][6]
^"Association Internationale du Congo". Encyclopædia Britannica. 22 March 2007.
^Memo from Belgium. 1978. p. 210.
^Rorison, Sean (20 July 2012). Congo: Democratic Republic - Republic. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 63. ISBN 9781841623917.
^Cornelis, S. (1991). "Stanley au service de Léopold II: La fondation de l'Etat Indépendant du Congo (1878-1885)". In Cornelis, S. (Ed.), H.M. Stanley: Explorateur Au Service du Roi. Pp. 41-60. Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa.: 53–54.
^Simmonds, R. (6 December 2012). Legal problems arising from the United Nations military operations in the Congo. Springer. p. 26. ISBN 9789401192675.
^Katzenellenbogen, S. (1996). "It didn't happen at Berlin: Politics, economics and ignorance in the setting of Africa's colonial boundaries.". In Nugent, P.; Asiwaju, A. I. (eds.). African Boundaries: Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities. London: Pinter. pp. 21–34.
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