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State of Katanga
État du Katanga
Inchi Ya Katanga
1960–1963
Flag
Coat of arms
Motto: "Force, espoir et paix dans la prospérité"
"Power, hope and peace in prosperity"
Anthem: "La Katangaise"[1]
Katanga in green (1961)
Status
Unrecognized state
Capital
and largest city
Élisabethville
Languages
French
Swahili
Demonym(s)
Katangese Katangan
Government
Presidential constitutional republic
President
• 1960–1963
Moïse Tshombe
Vice-president
• 1960–1963
Jean-Baptiste Kibwe
Legislature
National Assembly
Historical era
Congo Crisis
• Katanga secession
11 July 1960
• South Kasai secession
8 August 1960
• Dissolution
21 January 1963
Area
• Total
496,871 km2 (191,843 sq mi)
Population
• 1960 estimate
1,700,000
Currency
Katangese franc
Time zone
UTC+2 (CAT)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Congo-Léopoldville
Congo-Léopoldville
Today part of
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Conflicts in DR Congo
Background
Colonization
Congo Free State
Atrocities
Belgian Congo
during WWII
1944 Kivu uprising
Léopoldville riots
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Congo Crisis
Force Publique mutinies
Secession crisis
Katanga
South Kasai
Invasion
Congo-Stanleyville
UN intervention
Rum Punch
Niemba ambush
Battle of Kabalo
Jadotville
UNOKAT
Camp Massart
Grandslam
Kindu atrocity
Port Francqui incident
Kanyarwanda War
Kwilu rebellion
Simba rebellion
Dragon Rouge
Dragon Noir
White Giant
Violettes Imperiales
South
Other major events
Dissolution of the Lumumba Government
Torture and killing of Lumumba
Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
Shaba Invasions
Shaba I
Shaba II
Battle of Kolwezi
Non-aggression pact of 1979
First Congo War
Background
Shaba Invasions
Second Sudanese Civil War
War in Uganda (1986–1994)
1991 Zaire unrest
Burundian Civil War
Rwandan Civil War
Assassination of Habyarimana
Rwandan genocide
Great Lakes refugee crisis
War
Formation of the AFDL
Massacres of Hutus
Operation Thunderbolt
Battle of Kisangani (1997) [fr]
Overthrow of Mobutu
Ascension of Laurent Kabila
Second Congo War
Operation Kitona
Lusaka Ceasefire
Gbadolite Agreement
Sun City Agreement
Six-Day War
Assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Kisangani massacre
Effacer le tableau
Bogoro massacre
Pretoria Accord
MONUSCO
ICC investigation
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Ituri conflict
Bogoro
Artemis
North Night Final
Marabho
Ndjala
Plaine Savo
Nyamamba and Mbogi
Response
UN 1484
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Kivu conflict
Lemera massacre
Kasika massacre
Makobola massacre
Makombo massacre
2008 Nord-Kivu campaign
2009 Eastern Congo offensive
M23 rebellion (2012–13)
2014 North Kivu offensive
2017 CNPSC offensive
Uvira clashes
Oicha
Virunga
Kipupu massacre
Kagogo ambush
M23 offensive (2022–23)
Anti-MONUSCO protests
Kishishe massacre
1st Kitshanga
2nd Kitshanga
Masambo attack
Otomabere attack
August 2022 attacks
Kasindi church bombing
Makugwe massacre
Mukondi massacre
Other
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
Katanga insurgency
Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
Dongo conflict
2011 coup d'etat attempt
Batwa–Luba clashes
2013 Kinshasa attacks
Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
Western DR Congo clashes
Child soldiers in the Congo
The State of Katanga (French: État du Katanga; Swahili: Inchi Ya Katanga), also known as the Republic of Katanga, was a breakaway state that proclaimed its independence from Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe, leader of the local Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga (CONAKAT) political party. The new Katangese state did not enjoy full support throughout the province and was constantly plagued by ethnic strife in its northernmost region. It was dissolved in 1963 following an invasion by United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) forces, and reintegrated with the rest of the country as Katanga Province.
The Katangese secession was carried out with the support of Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a mining company with concession rights in the region, and a large contingent of Belgian military advisers.[2] The Katanga Gendarmerie, an army raised by the Tshombe government, was initially organised and trained by Belgium's military and consisted of Belgian soldiers as well as mercenaries from Northern Rhodesia and elsewhere.[3] There was a similarly organized Katangese Air Force.
Although the rebellion was conceived as an opposition to Patrice Lumumba's central government, it continued even after the democratically elected prime minister was violently overthrown, leading to Lumumba's own kidnap and murder inside the breakaway state. After Operation Grandslam, the rebels either scattered or surrendered to United Nations forces in 1963.
^"Katanga – nationalanthems.info". Retrieved 21 August 2018.
^Mockler, Antony (1987). The New Mercenaries: The History of the Hired Soldier from the Congo to the Seychelles. New York: Paragon House Publishers. pp. 37–55. ISBN 0-913729-72-8.
^For more on the Gendarmerie, see Jules Gérard-Libois, 'Katanga Secession,' University of Wisconsin Press, 1966, 114–115, 155–174.
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