Africa: Katanga’s Threatened Giant. 3 minute read. TIME. January 18, 1963 12:00 AM GMT-5. Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as ...

Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo is blessed with enormous natural wealth, including vast deposits of precious minerals such as diamonds, gold, and tantalum. Katanga saw a ...

As he flew westward, angry voices pursued him. At least for the moment, his backdown over Katanga had dented U.N. prestige in Africa. Both Guinea’s Premier Sékou Touré and Ghana’s President ...

Central African Mining & Exploration Co., a producer of copper and cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, agreed to buy an 18.3 percent stake in Katanga Mining Ltd., raising its holding to 29 ...

Few sites in Africa yielded as large a supply of copper ore as the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to its scarcity, the "red" metal was associated with kings, ... Visionary ...