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unusual facts about Kongolo, Katanga



Belgian colonial empire

It also annexed Katanga, a territory held under the Congo Free State, which Leopold had gained in 1891.

Bourse du Travail

The rulers of Belgian Congo created a Bourse du travail at Katanga in 1910 as a state controlled hiring hall, in an attempt to lure labor to areas of planned industrial (mostly mining) concentration.

Canadian mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Adastra Minerals Inc., incorporated in Canada with executive offices in the United Kingdom, and known from 1995 to 2004 as America Mineral Fields Inc., held two joint ventures, the Kolwezi Tailings Project (cobalt and copper) and a zinc-copper mine at Kipushi, both in Katanga Province.

Cattierite

In addition to the type locality in the Katanga district it is reported from Gansberg, Black Forest, Germany; near Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden; Bald Knob, near Sparta, Alleghany County, North Carolina and in the Fletcher mine of Reynolds County, Missouri.

Chiengi

Chiengi boma was established during the race between Belgian King Leopold II's Congo Free State and the British South Africa Company (BSAC) of Cecil Rhodes to seize Katanga from its king, Msiri, in 1890-91.

Congo Pedicle road

Under Mobutu, governance deteriorated and corruption flourished in Zaire, and he saw Katanga only as a cash cow and punished it for its separatist tendencies by neglecting its development.

Cyrille Adoula

UN Secretary-General U Thant proposed a plan to end the secession of Katanga, but Tshombe made no moves to implement it.

Godefroid Munongo

Munongo was Minister of Interior for the Congo in 1965 and he then led the eastern Katanga province until 24 April 1966 when the province merged with the neighbouring province of Lualaba.

Greeks in Zambia

By the 1920s Greek traders and fishermen had established a center in Katanga and from there plied the river trade of the Congo to Zambia where many settled.

Haut-Katanga District

Haut-Katanga District (Upper Katanga District) is a district located in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

January 2006 in Africa

Violence in Democratic Republic of the Congo’s “triangle of death” in the province of Katanga has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes and threatens to disrupt national elections.

John Stockwell

Beginning his career in 1964, Stockwell spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in 1968, then Chief of Station in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1970, before being transferred to Vietnam to oversee intelligence operations in the Tay Ninh province and was awarded the CIA Medal of Merit for keeping his post open until the last days of the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Julbernardia paniculata

As a result it grows in a band across the continent from north and north-east Angola through Katanga in Democratic Republic of the Congo and across the northern two-thirds of Zambia towards the inland plateau of north Mozambique and as far north as central Tanzania.

K-65 residues

K-65 residues are the very radioactive mill residues resulting from a uniquely concentrated uranium ore discovered before WW II in Katanga province (Shinkolobwe) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly called the Belgian Congo).

Kabika Tshilolo

Marie-Jeanne Kabika Tshilolo (born 1949 in Élisabethville, Katanga) is a French language writer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kalakundi

Kalukundi Mine, a copper and cobalt mine being developed in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Kazembe

After Msiri’s death the Luapula valley was divided in 1894 between Britain — the eastern shores of the Luapula and Lake Mweru became part of North-Eastern Rhodesia, administered by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) — and King Leopold II of Belgium’s misnamed Congo Free State (CFS), or rather its agent, the Compagnie du Katanga, which took over the western shores.

Kazumba

Kazumba, Katanga, a settlement in Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kibara

Kibara Mountains, a range in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kipushi Mine

Kipushi Mine (formerly Prince Léopold Mine) is an underground mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the town of Kipushi in the province of Katanga.

Kongolo Mwamba

Kongolo (or Nkongolo) was a leader of Luba people in the region of Katanga, and the first king of the Luba Empire.

A son of Ilunga Mbidi and nephew of Kongolo, Kalala Ilunga, took the place of his father as one of the generals among the warring forces.

Kongolo, Katanga

Kongolo is a town in Tanganyika District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Krishnaswamy Sundarji

In 1963 he served in the UN mission in the Congo, where he was chief of staff of the Katanga command and was mentioned in dispatches for his gallantry.

Lake Tshangalele

It is located about 20 km east of the city of Likasi in the old province of Katanga.

Larry Devlin

In the event, he temporized, neglecting to act, and Lumumba was ultimately murdered by his enemies in Katanga, allegedly with Belgian government participation.

Lobito

It dates from 1905 and owes its existence to the bay of the same name having been chosen as the sea terminus of the Benguela railway to the far interior, passing through Luau to Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Lukuga River

The river leaves Lake Tanganyika at Kalemie and flows through a gap in the highlands westward through the Tanganyika District to join the Lualaba between Kabalo and Kongolo.

Maria de Fonseca

Maria de Fonseca was the great wife of Msiri, the powerful warrior-king of Katanga, at the time when the Stairs Expedition arrived in 1891 to take possession of the territory for the Belgian King Leopold II, with or without Msiri's consent.

Mutanda

Mutanda Mine, an open-pit copper mine in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pepa

Pepa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a village in northeastern Katanga province with a population around 4,000

Portuguese irregular forces in the Overseas War

Fiéis (Faithfuls) - force composed of military and police from Katanga, exiled for opposing the regime of Mobutu; these men fled to Angola with their families in a total of nearly 5,000 people.

Robert Rothschild

After the independence of the Congo from Belgium in 1960, Katanga, the richest of the six provinces of the Belgian Congo seceded on 11 July, and the Belgians decided to move to Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) in Katanga.

Saleeite

It was later determined that the Katanga mineral was meta-saleeite Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2·8(H2O) and the type locality was assigned to the Weißer Hirsch Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.

Sangram Shah

Sangram Shah (1500–1542 CE) was a king of the Garha-Katanga Kingdom, now in the Narsinghpur district within the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.

Stairs Expedition to Katanga

Caught between them, and attempting to play one off against the other, was Msiri, the big chief of Garanganze or Katanga, a tribal land not yet claimed by a European power, and larger than many European countries in acreage.

The Stairs Expedition to Katanga of 1891−1892 led by Captain William Stairs was the winner in a race between two imperial powers to claim Katanga, a vast mineral-rich territory in Central Africa for colonization, during which a local chief, (Mwenda Msiri) was killed.

At the 1884–85 Berlin Conference and related bilateral negotiations between Britain and Belgium, the land west and north of the Luapula RiverLake Mweru system (Katanga) was allocated to the CFS while the land to the east and south was allocated to Britain and the BSAC.

Tanganyika District

From July 11, 1962 to December 28, 1966, this area was known as the province of Nord-Katanga, but the administration of the province was taken over in 1966 by the central government, and it was finally merged into the restored Katanga Province by the Mobutu government.

Union Minière du Haut Katanga

Göran Björkdahl (a Swedish aid worker) wrote in 2011 that he believed Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 death was a murder committed in part to benefit mining companies like Union Minière, after Hammarsköld had made the UN intervene in the Katanga crisis.

United States Radium Corporation

The company struggled after World War I: the loss of military contracts sharply reduced demand for luminescent paint and dials, and in 1922, high-grade ore was discovered in Katanga, driving all U.S. suppliers out of business except U.S. Radium and the Standard Chemical Company.

University of Kamina

The University of Kamina (UNIKAM) is a public university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the province of Katanga,city of Kamina.

University of Kolwezi

The University of Kalemie (UNIKOL) is a public university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the province of Katanga, city of Kolwezi.


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