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The Union for the Congolese Nation (French: Union pour la Nation Congolaise; UNC) is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was founded in 2010 by Vital Kamerhe, who was at the time a close ally of the former president Joseph Kabila.
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The Congo became independent on 30 June 1960, but Belgian Lieutenant General Émile Janssens, commander of the Force Publique (FP) (the army) refused to rapidly "Africanize" the FP officers. Disorder and mutinies quickly followed, four days after the Congo gained independence. While President Joseph Kasa-Vubu and Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba were ...
Indian Army
On 12 July 1960, after the Security Council adopted a resolution calling on Belgium to withdraw its forces and the UN to assist the Congolese government, Dag Hammarskjöld appointed senior Indian diplomat Rajeshwar Dayal (who would become India's foreign secretary) as his special representative. Lumumba's assassination shocked Jawaharlal Nehru, who reacted sharply. Calling it "an international crime of the first magnitude", he asked Hammarskjöld to take a tough line.[This quote needs a citatio...
Malayan Special Force
Malaya (now Malaysia) was invited to send a contingent to serve in ONUC. In response to the United Nations' request, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman offered a force of 120 men in a 4 August 1960 telegram to the secretary-general. The force was increased to 450 men in a 24 August telegram, settling at 613: 42 officers and 571 men of other ranks. The ONUC Malayan Special Force (MSF) was drawn from the Malayan Army's 4th Battalion, the Royal Malay Regiment, and C Squadron of the 2nd Reconnaiss...
Swedish Armed Forces
Sweden had an active role in the UN force during the crisis. When Dag Hammarskjöld established ONUC, he organized it into two parts: military and civilian. Swedish major-general Carl von Horn headed the military, and Swedish diplomat Sture Linnér was responsible for the civilians. Both subject to the American Ralph Bunche, who was appointed head of the operation.
ONUC was the first UN peacekeeping mission to employ force to implement decisions by the Security Council, and was the first mission to enforce a no-fly zone and an arms embargo.[q] During its first three years of its operation, ONUC improved the Congo's internal security.[r] On the eve of the mission's departure, Adoula said by radio that it was a...
The Netflix film The Siege of Jadotville (2016, directed by Richie Smyth) is based on Declan Power's book, The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle(2005). It tells the story of the Irish peacekeeping troop that held off Katangese and mercenary troops in the mining town of Jadotville, despite being heavily outnumbered.
Abi-Saab, G. (1978), The United Nations Operation in the Congo 1960–1964(Oxford: Oxford University Press).Franck, Thomas M. (1962). "United Nations Law in Africa: The Congo Operation as a Case Study". Law and Contemporary Problems. 27 (4): 632–52. doi:10.2307/1190797. JSTOR 1190797.Abi-Saab, Georges (1978), "The Initial Decision to Undertake a Peace-Keeping Operation in the Congo (July 1960)", The United Nations Operation in the Congo, 1960–1964, Oxford: Oxford University Pre...Beauregard, JPRE (Summer 1989), "UN Operations in the Congo, 1960–1964", Canadian Defence Quarterly, 19: 27.Records of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) (1960-1964)at the United Nations Archives
The Union of Congolese Patriots (French: Union des Patriotes congolais, or UPC) is a political and militia group in Ituri, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, formed towards the end of the Second Congo War.
Danach war er Parlamentspräsident und gab dieses Amt schließlich im März 2009 auf Druck von Kabila auf. Im Dezember 2010 trat Kamerhe aus der Kabila-Partei PPRD aus und gründete die UNC (Union pour la nation congolaise) als Oppositionspartei, für die er bei der Wahl kandidierte.
24. Jan. 2019 · Felix Tshisekedi's father founded the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (known by its French initials UDPS) in 1982, and was a feared rival of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who died months...
