He neither cooperated with the UN nor dismissed the mercenaries. Through the end of 1962, Tshombe agreed repeatedly to cease-fires, and even to the reintegration of Katanga into the Congo.

Katanga’s provincial assembly ratified seven of the agreement’s eight points, but still haggled over the crucial one, which would oust the white mercenaries in the army. At his Elisabethville ...

Hundreds of people have been brutally killed and more than 150,000 have fled their homes in remote parts of Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local residents of the area ...

And in the mineral-rich Katanga region, this led to the assassination ... Through a combination of charm, mercenaries and ...