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Also Known As Congo Belge
Date 1908 - June 30, 1960

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Related Places

Congo, Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
capital at Kinshasa

Key People

Leopold II
Leopold II
king of Belgium
Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba
Congolese politician
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko
president of Zaire
Laurent Kabila
president of Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kasavubu
Joseph Kasavubu
president of Congo
Akeley, Carl E.
Carl E. Akeley
American naturalist and explorer
Gaston Eyskens
prime minister of Belgium
Simon Kimbangu
African religious leader