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How the Congo crisis reshaped international relations
In July 1960, within a week of achieving independence from Belgium, the Congo (later renamed Zaire
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Dr. Alanna O’Malley is the author of The Diplomacy of Decolonisation, America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo Crisis, 1960-1964.