Word: gizenga
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...officials who urged him to go ahead and formally declare the opening of Parliament, with or without the delegates. His reason: without Katanga's votes, control of the legislature just might swing to the Communist-backed regime of that other prominent Congolese secessionist, Stanleyville's Antoine Gizenga, who runs Eastern province...
Huddling grimly with his close aides, General Mobutu seemed determined to prevent Gizenga's return to national influence at any cost, and suspicion rose that the 30-year-old army chief might try to grab control of the central government with a military coup d'etat to make sure his views prevailed...
...Tune. Linner dispatched his aide, Robert K. A. Gardiner, a Ghanaian by nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe...
...local press angrily quoted him as calling Army Boss Mobutu a "bandit." In time, Dayal lost personal contact with all Congolese leaders, eventually withdrew to haughty isolation in his own elegant residence. When, after Lumumba's death, he seemed to lean over backward to favor Antoine Gizenga's Red-leaning Stanleyville regime, Dayal also lost the trust of the big Western nations...
...same week, suggesting that Nkrumah is building up supplies to expand his gunrunning activities all along Africa's west coast, for Nkrumah's own army already has all the arms it can use (supplied largely by Britain). One likely intended recipient is the Congo's Antoine Gizenga, the Red-lining rebel in Stanleyville, who as Lumumba's Vice Premier is recognized by the Communist bloc (and Ghana) as the Congo's legitimate ruler. Only last month, Nkrumah talked publicly of restoring the "balance of armaments" in the Congo if the Belgians continued to aid Katanga...