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From 1885, Portuguese Angola included the District of Congo, which was split in 1919 into the districts of Cabinda and Zaire, respectively north and south of the Congo/Zaire River. [10] During the 1961–1974 Angolan War of Independence, a large fraction of the Bakongo fled to the Republic of Zaire.
Zaire, in a bid to install a pro-Kinshasa government and thwart the MPLA's drive for power, deployed armored cars, paratroopers, and three infantry battalions to Angola in support of the FNLA. [53] Within three weeks, South African and UNITA forces had captured five provincial capitals, including Novo Redondo and Benguela .
Soyo (formerly known as Santo António do Zaire) is a city, with a population of 200,920 (2014 census), [2] and a municipality, with a population of 227,175 (2014 census), located in the province of Zaire in Angola, at the mouth of the Congo River.
Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa , it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria , and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
Angola, [a] officially the Republic of Angola, [b] is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. ... and especially from a common border with Zaire, ...
Cuimba is a town and municipality in Zaire Province in Angola. [3] The municipality had a population of 69,194 in 2014. [1] References
Over the years, the FNLA had become little more than an extension of Mobutu's own armed forces. Much of Zaire's support came indirectly from the U.S., which Zaire's leader Mobutu had close ties with. Zaire was the first country to send troops to Angola in March 1975 and to engage in fighting against the MPLA by the summer of that year. [55]
Angola chose to participate in the First Congo War because members of Mobutu's government were directly involved in supplying the Angolan rebel group, UNITA. [ 74 ] It is unclear exactly how the government benefited from this relationship, other than personal enrichment for several officials, but it is certainly possible that Mobutu was unable ...