Civil Guard (Zaire)
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The Zairian Civil Guard was a militarised police force in Zaire, created to support the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko.
The first promotion of the Civil Guard. Kotakoli Air Base, Équateur, in 1985.
Katanga Province
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Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split in
Malachite specimen, showing the original botryoidal form and a polished face of the opposite half of the specimen. Mines in the vicinity of Kolwezi supply much of the polishing-grade malachite in the world.
Another malachite specimen from Katanga, on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Mine de Shinkolobwe. The uranium for the Manhattan Project and the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe mine.
Hills of Katanga