An armored Belgian car with Belgian troops takes a position at the airport, which they closed, Aug. 7, 1960, to stop U.N.

UNTIL recently Belgium’s colonial record in the Congo was favorably regarded by large areas of ... rising to as much as 27 and 36 per cent in the provinces of Léopoldville and Elizabethville.

The big black toe of Congoland was their objective—namely the city of Elizabethville, which lies 900 miles inland, at the very toe and tip of the Belgian Congo, just where it touches Great ...

The plane was a huge US Globemaster, carrying the men of A Company, 36th Infantry Battalion, to Elizabethville in the Congo in December 1961. A Company's deployment, which ended 50 years ago this ...

At Elizabethville, where most Congo Jews reside, the situation was reported as not alarming. Chief Rabbi Levy has not left Elizabethville. The situation in Stanleyville was reported, ...

The communities in Elizabethville has not yet been able to establish regular contact with Jewish communities in other Congo centers. Under the Belgian Government, the Congo Jewry totaled 2,500 ...

UN Swedish soldiers arriving at Elizabethville in Katanga in 1960. Armed conflict started in the former colony of Belgian Congo after independence in 1960 Credit: Photo: AFP/Getty Images ...