Kitona Air Base (ICAO: FZAI) is a military airport located near Kitona in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[1] Up until 2007, it was commanded by Major General Rigobert Massamba Musungu of the DR Congolese Air Force.[2]
^ abAirport information for FZAI[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
^U.S. Embassy Kinshasa, 07KINSHASA671 Major Reshuffle of Military and Police Leadership, Friday 15 June 2007 (UNCLAS/FOUO)
KitonaAirBase (ICAO: FZAI) is a military airport located near Kitona in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Up until 2007, it was commanded by Major General...
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system. As a safeguard against Belgium being invaded again, two major bases, Kitona and Kamina, were established in the Belgian Congo. They were almost viewed...
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Congolese Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula. On 21 December 1961 Tshombe signed the Kitona Declaration, an agreement whereby he would recognise the authority of the...
operation forced Tshombe to agree to negotiate with Adoula. Tshombe signed the Kitona Declaration on 21 December 1961, agreeing that Katanga was part of the Congo...
around Élisabethville. Faced with international pressure, Tshombe signed the Kitona Declaration in December 1961 in which he agreed in principle to accept the...
allowed for Belgian metropolitan troops to continue to garrison the bases of Kitona and Kamina until another agreement could arrange the installations' handover...
American dramatist and director; of a heart attack At the U.N. military base at Kitona, in the Congo, Katangan President Moise Tshombe and Congolese Prime...
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