Axis of Change/Mittelafrikan Crisis

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Congo Crisis/Mittelafrikan Crisis/World War Africa

Katanguese Soldier aiming his rifle
Date5 July 1960 – 25 November 1965
Location
Mittelafrika
Result Separatists Victory
Territorial
changes
  • Defeat of Lumumbist forces
  • Formation of many states in Central Africa
  • Further insurgencies trought the former colonial territory
Belligerents
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Tanganyika
  • Uganda
  • Socialist Federative Republic of Cameroon
  • Burundi
  • Supported by:
  • Ghana
  • Mali
  • Material Support:
  • Soviet Union
  • China
  • Japan
  • State of Katanga
  • Empire of Kasai
  • Rwanda
  • Kongo Kingdom
  • Supported by:
  • Chad
  • Azania
  • Material Support:
  • German Reich
  • United States of America
Commanders and leaders
  • Patrice Lumumba  
  • Julius Nyerere
  • Milton Obote
  • Ruben Um Nyobè
  • Mwambutsa IV
  • Moïse Tshombe
  • Albert Kalonji
  • Kigeli V
  • Holden Roberto
Casualties and losses
  • Military dead: 200,000
  • Civilian dead: 1,000,000