Congo
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Democratic Republic of Congo is a country in Africa, founded in 1965, with a population of 92 million people (indoctrinated with Christianity) and Kinshasa as capital and largest city. It is a member of the United Nations. It is ruled by the Jesuits.
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History of Congo
1000 bc San people.
200 Bantu people.
1300s Kingdom of Congo.
1526 start of the Atlantic slave trade.
1530 king Afonso I.
1571 The Portugese, in alliance with the Kingdom of Kongo, conquer Angola.
1665 Kongo Civil War.
1879 Leopold II Saxe-Coburg of Belgium colonizes Congo.
1885 Leopold acquires Congo at the Berlin Conference (with Otto von Bismarck). Mass murder of millions, dictatorship with chopping off hands as punishment.
1909 Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit explore Congo for the Smithsonian Institution.
1919 founding of diamond mining company Societé Minière de Bakwanga (MIBA).
1921 Maurice Auguste Lippens as Governor-General of Belgian Congo.
1938 Garamba National Park.
1954 jesuits open Lovanium University, funded by Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.
1957 Diamond merchant Maurice Tempelsman (CFR) works with Mobutu Sese Seko.
1958 Léopoldville riots.
1960 independence from Belgium, admittance to the UN, Joseph Kasa-Vubu as president, Patrice Lumumba as pm.
1961 assassination of Lumumba, Mobutu (1001 Club with Bernhard Lippe, who founded the WWF) as president. Jesuit Albert Ndele as governor of the Bank of Congo.
1971 Lovanium University merges with National University of Zaire.
1974 Muhammad Ali defeats George Foreman in Congo (most watched live tv broadcast, media ritual with Don King and Mobutu).
1997 First Congo War. Jesuit Dikembe Mutombo is used in the sport industry.
2000 Dan Gertler, related to Moshe Schnitzer, works with the Societé miniere de Bakwanga. Raoul Peck's movie Lumumba.
2003 jesuit Jean-Pierre Bemba as vice-president (later indicted by International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity).
2004 Kivu conflict.
2007 jesuit Nkulu Mtumba Kilombo.
2009 investment deal with Chinese companies Sinohydro and Chinese Railway Engineering Corporation for ownership of mineral processing plants.
2016 jesuit Ilingu Kalenga as Minister of Health. founding of Loyola University of Congo.
2019 jesuit Sylvestre Ilunga as prime minister.
Presidents
Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Joseph Kabila, Félix Tshisekedi (African Union, son of jesuit Etienne Tshisekedi).