This paper examines Ghana's engagement in the United Nations (UN) mission during the Congo political crisis in the 1960s. The paper examines competing rationales behind Ghana's decision to contribute towards the UN operation in the Congo. Ghana's participation, to date, has been primarily ...
Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on materials from recently opened archives in Russia and the United States, and to a lesser extent Germany and Belgium, Namika...
Free Essay: In 1908, Leopold II, King of the Belgians handed over the Free State of Congo, acquired in 1889, to Belgium. In 1960, the Congo became an...
Congo's National Anthem •Arise, Congolese, United by fate, United in the struggle for independence, •Let us hold up our heads, so long bowed, •And now, for good, let us keep moving boldly ahead, in peace. •Oh, ardent people, by hard work w...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Music, Visual Arts, Dance: Congo’s many ethnic groups and regions have developed a mosaic of traditional arts, including painting, sculpture, music, and dance. There has been a tendency to classify sculpture and carvin
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethnic Groups, Music, Art: Holidays celebrated in Congo include Commemoration of the Martyrs of Independence, observed on January 4; Labor Day and National Liberation Day, celebrated on May 1 and May 17, respectively; I
In 2024, the mine production of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) totaled an estimated 220,000 metric tons, the peak production volume in the indicated period. DR Congo is the world's largest producer of cobalt from mines, accounting for over 70 percent of global cobalt...
The large lava lake contained in its deep summit crater, now active again, became famous in the 1960’s and 70’s when volcanologists such as the Kraffts and Tazieff studied it. It had been active for half a century before it drained in one of the volcano’s recent most catastrophic er...
1.(Placename)Democratic Republic of Congoa republic in S central Africa, with a narrow strip of land along the Congo estuary leading to the Atlantic in the west: Congo Free State established in 1885, with Leopold II of Belgium as absolute monarch; became the Belgian Congo colony in 1908; ...
Congo Mercis a light operational-level war-game set in the Congo during the decolonization in the 1960s. The digital gameCongo Mercis based on the mini-board-gameCongo Merc, the Congo 1964. The digital game is easy to learn and quick playing, but unhappily the game-play rapidly becomes rep...