The Katangese, who defied world opinion for weeks in hanging onto Lumumba, finished the affair with a flourish. “I will speak frankly,” said Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo.

If the Katangese were to be believed, it all began one dark night outside the little Katanga town of Mutshatsha, near the border of Portuguese Angola. There Lumumba and two of his former aides sat ...

Over four days in September 1961, Irish troops in the Congo as part of a UN peacekeeping mission held out against overwhelming odds while inflicting heavy causalities on Katangese gendarmerie and ...