Shaba II

Shaba II

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Shaba II
date=March 17-June 1978
place=Shaba, Zaire
casus=
resua I


caption=
result=Zairian victory; mutual end of support for other nations' rebel groups
combatant1=
combatant2=Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC)
commander1=Mobutu Sese Seko
commander2=Nathaniel Mbumba
strength1=Unknown
strength2=Unknown
casualties1=Unknown
casualties2=Unknown

Shaba II was an invasion of the Shaba separatist movement FNLC (6,500 Katangese gendarmes) into the Zairian province of Shaba on 17 May 1978. The FNLC had its bases in eastern Angola and probably had the support of the Angolan government. Mobutu of Zaire appealed for foreign assistance and French and Belgian military intervention beat back the invasion just as in 1977.George, Edward. "The Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965-1991: From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale", 2005. Page 136.]

The Congolese National Liberation Front (FNLC) captured Kolwezi.Widstrand, Carl Gösta, Timothy M. Shaw, and Douglas George Anglin. "Canada, Scandinavia, and Southern Africa", 1978. Page 130.]

The U.S. and Cuba coaxed Angola and Zaire into negotiations leading to a non-aggression pact. This ended support for insurgencies in each others' respective countries. Zaire temporarily cutoff support to FLEC, the FNLA, and UNITA and Angola forbade further activity by the Shaba separatists.

The U.S. worked with France in repelling the invaders, the first military cooperation between the two nations since the Vietnam War.

Battle of Kolwezi

Six hundred troops of the French Foreign Legion's 2 Foreign Paratroop Regiment took back Kolwezi after a seven-day battle and airlifted 2,250 European citizens to Belgium, but not before the FNLC massacred 80 Europeans and 200 Africans. In one instance the FNLC killed 34 European civilians who had hidden in a room. The FNLC retreated to Zambia and back to Angola, vowing to return. The Zairian army then forcibly evicted civilians along Shaba's 65-mile long border with Angola and Mobutu ordered them to shoot on sight. [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,916174,00.html Inside Kolwezi: Toll of Terror] , June 5, 1978. "TIME" magazine]

ee also

*Angolan Civil War
*Cuba in Angola
*Shaba I

References

External links

* [http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/odom2/odom2.asp Shaba II: The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Shaba — bezeichnet: den früheren Namen einer Provinz der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, siehe Katanga (Provinz); die Großgemeinde Shaba (沙坝) im Stadtbezirk Qianjiang in der chinesischen regierungsunmittelbaren Stadt Chongqing, siehe Shaba (Qianjiang);… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Shaba —   [ʃ ; Suaheli »Kupfer«], bis 1971 Katạnga, Region in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, 496 965 km2, 5,6 Mio. Einwohner; Hauptstadt ist Lubumbashi. Shaba ist ein Savannenhochland (1 100 1 900 m über dem Meeresspiegel) zwischen Kasai im Westen… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Shaba — * Shaba, Kenya * Shaba Province, name of Katanga Province in present DR Congo (Kinshasa) between 1971 and 1997 * variant spelling of Shebaa * Shaba Games * Shabo, a colony of French speaking Swiss in Odessa Oblast, Ukraineee also*Saba… …   Wikipedia

  • Shaba — V. Katanga …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Shaba I — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Shaba I date=March 8, 1977 May 1977 place=Shaba, Zaire casus= resua I caption= result=Zairian Moroccan victory, rebel defeat combatant1= combatant2=Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FLNC)… …   Wikipedia

  • Shaba — 1 Original name in latin Shaba Name in other language Shaba, Shaba Zhen, sha ba, sha ba zhen State code CN Continent/City Asia/Shanghai longitude 29.26653 latitude 110.01711 altitude 418 Population 0 Date 2012 01 18 2 Original name in latin Shaba …   Cities with a population over 1000 database

  • Shaba — Katanga Pour les articles homonymes, voir Katanga (homonymie).  Ne doit pas être confondu avec Khatanga. Katanga …   Wikipédia en Français

  • shaba — Same meaning as wow, cool, or thank you. 1. That was very shaba! 2. Did you see that website? It s shaba. 3. Shaba very much …   Dictionary of american slang

  • shaba — Same meaning as wow, cool, or thank you. 1. That was very shaba! 2. Did you see that website? It s shaba. 3. Shaba very much …   Dictionary of american slang

  • Shaba-Nationalreservat — Shaba National Reserve IUCN Kategorie II …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”