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Kolwezi: When Cold War Powers Seized Africa's Copper Heart
In May 1978, rebel forces seized Kolwezi, the mining center of Shaba Province in Zaire. The city's strategic importance—central to the nation's copper and cobalt production—made its occupation a crisis for the Mobutu gov...
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3- 1881 Tunisia becomes a French protectorate. 🇹🇳 Tunisia
- 1978 In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order. 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Godfrey Binaisa deposed by the UNLF's Military Commission after attempting to remove Brigadier David Oyite Ojok, then placed under house arrest at State House in Entebbe.