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President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire accused Angola, Cuba, and the Soviet Union of sponsoring the rebels. Motivated by anti-Communism and by economic interests, the Western Bloc and China sent assistance to support the Mobutu regime. The most significant intervention, orchestrated by the Safari Club, featured a French airlift of Moroccan troops into the war zone. This intervention turned the tide of the conflict. U.S. President Jimmy Carter approved the shipment of supplies to Zaire, but refused to send weapons or troops and maintained that there was no evidence of Cuban involvement.

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  • Shaba I
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  • President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire accused Angola, Cuba, and the Soviet Union of sponsoring the rebels. Motivated by anti-Communism and by economic interests, the Western Bloc and China sent assistance to support the Mobutu regime. The most significant intervention, orchestrated by the Safari Club, featured a French airlift of Moroccan troops into the war zone. This intervention turned the tide of the conflict. U.S. President Jimmy Carter approved the shipment of supplies to Zaire, but refused to send weapons or troops and maintained that there was no evidence of Cuban involvement.
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Strength
  • 1600(xsd:integer)
  • Belgium: 80
  • Egypt: ~50
  • France: 20-65
  • Morocco: 1,300–1,500 Paratroopers
  • Zaire: 3,000-4,000
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Partof
  • the Cold War
Date
  • --03-08
Commander
  • Hassan II
  • Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
  • General Ahmed Dlimi
  • Leo Tindemans
  • Mobutu Sese Seko Colonel Mampa Ngakwe Salamay
  • Nathaniel Mbumba
Caption
  • Zairian troops with a beret-wearing Moroccan military advisor
Casualties
  • Unknown
Result
  • FNCL expelled from Katanga
combatant
Place
  • *
Conflict
  • Shaba I
abstract
  • President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire accused Angola, Cuba, and the Soviet Union of sponsoring the rebels. Motivated by anti-Communism and by economic interests, the Western Bloc and China sent assistance to support the Mobutu regime. The most significant intervention, orchestrated by the Safari Club, featured a French airlift of Moroccan troops into the war zone. This intervention turned the tide of the conflict. U.S. President Jimmy Carter approved the shipment of supplies to Zaire, but refused to send weapons or troops and maintained that there was no evidence of Cuban involvement. The FAZ and the Moroccan troops terrorized the population of the province during and after the war. Bombing and other acts of violence led 50,000–70,000 refugees to flee into Angola and Zambia. Journalists were prevented from entering the Province and several were arrested. Mobutu nevertheless won a public relations victory, and ensured continuing economic assistance from governments, from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, and from a group of private lenders led by Citibank. The FAZ and outside powers clashed again with insurgents in the 1978 conflict called Shaba II.
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