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Tshombé Moïse
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Key facts
- President
- Joseph Kasa-Vubu
- Preceded by
- Cyrille Adoula
- Succeeded by
- Évariste Kimba
- Born
- 10 November 1919, Musumba , Belgian Congo
- Died
- 29 June 1969 (1969-06-29) (aged 49), El Biar , Algiers , Algeria
- Party
- CONAKAT , CONACO
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Place of birth
- Musumba
- Place of death
- El Biar
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- 26.2.63. Moïse Tshombe arrive à Toulouse (1963) - 53Fi5440 (cropped).jpg
- Convicted of
- treason
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- date of birth
- 1919-11-10
- date of death
- 1969-06-29
- Commons category
- Moise Tshombe
- name in native language
- Moïse Kapenda Tshombe
- place of detention
- Kinshasa
- P12749
- Epilobium alpestre
- P8168
- Boureima Ouattara
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Encyclopedic overview
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe (sometimes written Tshombé; 10 November 1919 – 29 June 1969) was a Congolese businessman and politician. He served as the president of the secessionist State of Katanga from 1960 to 1963 and as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1964 to 1965.
Tshombe was born to an aristocratic Lunda family and ran several businesses in Katanga Province before becoming involved in politics, cofounding the pro-Western, anti-communist CONAKAT party in 1958 and advocating for autonomy for Katanga province. Following the country's accession to independence in June 1960, Tshombe became president of the autonomous province, and soon came into conflict with the central government's leftist prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Accusing Lumumba of communist sympathies, Tshombe declared Katanga's independence as the breakaway State of Katanga, becoming a major actor of the Congo Crisis. Following Lumumba's overthrow and execution by Tshombe's supporters in 1961, the Katanga rebellion was suppressed in 1963, forcing Tshombe into exile.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tshombé Moïse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.