Niemba is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Katanga Province. It is situated on the Lukuga River, a tributary of the Lualaba river. The population is around 1,800. It is connected by rail to Kalemie.
The Niemba ambush took place on 8 November 1960, when an Irish Army patrol in Congo-Léopoldville was ambushed, the first time the Irish Army was embroiled...
Niemba is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Katanga Province. It is situated on the Lukuga River, a tributary of the Lualaba river. The population...
leader, the name Nimba originates with the Mano dialect which in Mano is Niemba Tun. The meaning is "hills on which young maidens will slip and fall". This...
and instead this river depends on its own tributaries, especially the Niemba River, to maintain a flow. The lake may also have at times had different...
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Luchazi (Lucazi, Chiluchazi) is a Bantu language of Angola and Zambia. Luchazi is the principal language of the Ngangela Group. Ngangela is a term coined...
years. On 8 November, an Irish Army platoon, sent to repair a bridge in Niemba, was ambushed and nine of its men killed by Baluba tribesmen. On 3 October...
Gustav M45 submachineguns and Bren Guns. One such patrol was ambushed at Niemba on 8 November 1960 by Baluba tribesmen. Of the 11 Irish soldiers, 9 were...
"Niemba Ambush", in which an eleven-man Irish patrol was ambushed by local tribesmen. Nine Irish soldiers and some 25 tribesmen were killed. A Niemba Ambush...
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the Luba. On 8 November 1960, an Irish Army patrol was ambushed outside Niemba. In the fighting, the Irish soldiers killed 25 Baluba with their firearms...
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who served in the United Nations Operation in the Congo and survived the Niemba ambush. Many factories closed in the 1970 and 1980s, leaving only a factory...
November 1960, Luba militiamen massacred nine men of an Irish patrol at Niemba, just west of Albertville. The day before von Bayer was out there to talk...
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remembered at Dún Uí Mhaoilíosa Museum. An axe used by African tribesman in the Niemba Ambush in the Congo in which nine Irish Army soldiers were killed is featured...
– Kabalo (Lualaba River port and junction with Katanga line) - Nyunzu – Niemba – Kalemie (the port on Lake Tanganyika). 714 km, 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge...
playing just 8 games. Kabongo is the son of Freddy Kelenda Kabongo and Yala Niemba. Christian Kabongo biography "Stampede acquire Pledger, Finalize Training...
Lady of the Holy Rosary, Castlebar, County Mayo 6 Dec 1799 22 Nov 1960 Niemba ambush victims Irish Army: Ten soldiers killed in the United Nations Operation...
contingents to defend the railway lines to Albertville, as well as Kongolo and Niemba from rebel assaults. In February 1966, government forces systematically...
(R2D) Arthur Z'ahidi Ngoma (Camp de la Patrie) and Vice-President Jacob Niemba Souga (CPC) Marie-Thérèse Nlandu Mpolo Nene (CONGO-PAX) Wivine N'Landu Kavidi...
– Kabalo (Lualaba River port and junction with Katanga line) – Nyunzu – Niemba – Kalemie (the port on Lake Tanganyika): This line was isolated meter gauge...
mercenaries were arrested around Albertville, nine were taken in Manono, seven in Niemba, and three in Nyunzu. In Kamina, the local Indian officer gave foreign personnel...
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