KnowraKatanga secessionLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Katanga secession, each with the reason it gives.All 10Broader topic 7Related 3Belgian CongoBroader topic: Colonial mining wealth and political divisions helped make secession possible.Congo CrisisBroader topic: Katanga’s secession became the crisis’s central territorial conflict.United Nations Operation in the CongoBroader topic: Ending this secession became ONUC’s most difficult and controversial task.Congolese independenceBroader topic: The secession challenged the territorial unity inherited at independence.U ThantBroader topic: Thant’s support for ending secession demonstrated a more assertive use of UN force than critics accepted.History of the Democratic Republic of the CongoBroader topic: Its defeat did not settle tensions over regional autonomy and control of mineral wealth.Katanga ProvinceBroader topic: The movement challenged the new Congolese government soon after independence.