Contemporary era · 1960 – 1966
Congo Crisis
The Congo Crisis (French: Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The crisis began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu.
- When
- 1960 – 1966
- Where
- Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)
- Era
- Contemporary
People
Che Guevara1928 – 1967Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
Patrice Lumumba1925 – 1961Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
Mobutu Sese Seko1930 – 1997Congolese politician and military officer, the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997 (1930 – 1997)
Olusegun Obasanjob. 1937Nigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79).jpg/330px-Visit_of_Laurent_D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Kabila%2C_President_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Congo%2C_to_the_EC_(cropped).jpg)
Laurent-Désiré Kabila1939 – 2001Former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1939-2001)
Before and after
Text from the Wikipedia article Congo Crisis, CC BY-SA 4.0