KAMINA

kämēˈnä, city (1984 pop. 171,008), Katanga province, S Congo (Kinshasa). It is an administrative and transportation center. A major military airfield is located there. Kamina was used by the Belgians as a center for interventionist actions in the early months of the Congo's independence (1960). It later served as a center for UN operations during the crisis caused by the secession (1960–63) of Katanga.

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Film Copyright in the European Union
Book by Pascal Kamina; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Copyright--Motion Pictures--European Union Countries, Copyright--Motion Pictures--France, Copyright--Motion Pictures--Great Britain
...the first book on this subject, Pascal Kamina unravels the complexities of film protection...key aspects of film copyright, Pascal Kamina also deals with the protection of film...lawyers outside continental Europe. PASCAL KAMINA, Dr. Jur. France , L. L. M., Ph. D...
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Crisis in the Congo: A United Nations Force in Action
Book by Ernest W. Lefever; Brookings Institution, 1965
Subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965, United Nations--Congo (Democratic Republic)
...the Atlantic coast, and the other at Kamina in the province of Katanga. Both bases...intervened in Elisabethville, Jadotville, Kamina, and elsewhere, and restored order. By...from Katanga or from the Kitona and Kamina bases, held under the unratified Treaty...
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Regimiento de la Vida: Tratado de Los Suenyos : (Salonika, 1564)
Book by John M. Zemke, Moshe ben Baruk Almosnino; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004
Subjects: Aristotle--Ethics, Rabbinical Literature--History And Criticism
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Imperialism's New Clothes: The Repartition of Tropical Africa, 1914-1919
Book by Brian Digre; Peter Lang, 1990
Subjects: Africa--Colonization, Africa--Politics And Government--To 1945, World War, 1914-1918--Africa, World War, 1914-1918--Territorial Questions--Africa
...powerful German transmitter located at Kamina, in the interior of Togo. The second...of destroying the wireless station at Kamina. Consequently on August 6, Captain F...capital of Lome and withdraw inland toward Kamina. 38 Gold Coast forces under Bryant...
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The Geography of Modern Africa
Book by Williarn A. Hance; Columbia University Press, 1964
Subjects: Africa--Geography
...of more than purely local significance have been Dakar, the British military bases in Kenya, the former Belgian base at Kamina in eastern Congo, the minor French naval bases at Djibouti in French Somaliland and Diego-Suarez at the northern tip of...
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Abstracts of Invited and Selected Papers and Organized Symposia
Journal article; Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 29, 2004
...Beef Industry: An Examination of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotics." Kamina Johnson, James Pritchett, and Dawn Thilmany (Colo. State Univ...K. Coffey, Ted Schroeder, and Tom Marsh (Kans. State Univ.); Kamina Johnson, Amanda Ziehl, Stephen Davies, Wendy Umberger, and Dawn...
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Che Guevara and the Congob
Journal article by Richard Gott; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1996
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...few weeks, the rebels controlled much of the east of the Congo, even appearing to threaten the major military complex at Kamina, in westcentral North Katanga. The third centre of revolt was in the north. Here a rebel force led by Nicholas Olenga, marched...
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The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34)
Journal article by Michal Biran; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002
Subjects: Islam and politics--Research, Islam--Research
...al-Safadi, A yan al-asr wa-a wan al-nasr, ed. Ali b. Abu Zayd (Beirut: Dar al-fikr, 1998), 2: 105; abridged in Ibn Hajar al-Durar al-kamina (Cairo: Dar al-kutub al-haditha, 1966), 2: 51; al-Maqrizi, Kitab al-suluk li-ma rifat duwal al-muluk (Cairo: Matba at Dar al-kutub...
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U.S. Foreign Policy and the Belgian Congo in the 1950s
Journal article by Jonathan E. Helmreich; The Historian, Vol. 58, 1996
Subjects: Belgium--Relations with the United States, Congo--Relations with the United States, United States--Foreign relations
...strengthen the Congolese Force Publique - a militia composed of Congolese troops and Belgian officers - and to expand the airport at Kamina. By the end of the 1950s, when the United States possessed new sources of uranium and refused to buy ores from the Congo - even...
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IBN Al-Salah Al-Shahrazuri and the Isnad
Journal article by Eerik Dickinson; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002
Subjects: Ibn al-Salah al-Shahrazuri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Islam, Islam and politics--History, Islamic learning and scholarship--History, Oral tradition--Religious aspects
...Tadrib, 2: 38. See also the remarks of the former Christian, Ibrahim b. Dawud al-Amidi (d. 797/1395); Ibn Hajar, al-Durar al-kamina fi asubsetyan al-micontainsa al-thamina, ed. Muhammad Sayyid Jad al-Haqq, 5 vols. (Cairo, n.d.), 1: 27. (193.) Cf. Joan E...
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The Trail Leads to South Africa; Big-Game Smugglers
Magazine article by Steven R. Galster; The Nation, Vol. 256, February 15, 1993
Subjects: Endangered species--Laws, regulations and rules, Smuggling--Cases, United States. Fish and Wildlife Service--Investigations
...that area Angola were Americans operating out of Kamina"--referring to Kamina Air Base in Zaire, where the C.I.A.s Unita-support...for the U.S. government were flying in and out of Kamina and Jamba regularly, and that American operatives...
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The Strange Death of Dag Hammarskjold
Magazine article by Matthew Hughes; History Today, Vol. 51, October 2001
Subjects: Aircraft accidents--Zambia, Hammarskjold, Dag--Biography, United Nations--Officials and employees
...the DC-6 but to re-direct it to follow Beukels to Kolwezi or Kamina in Katanga -- it is not clear in Beukels testimony which was...Kolwezi decided to direct Hammarskjolds plane and to bring him to Kamina or Kolwezi so that they could meet him. In his talks with...
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The Right's Last, Best Hope
Magazine article by Michael Maren; The Nation, Vol. 245, December 19, 1987
Subjects: American military assistance--Angola, Angola, Angolan foreign relations--South Africa, Angolan foreign relations--United States, Military assistance, American--Angola, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola--Military policy, Reagan, Ronald--International relations, Savimbi, Jonas--Military policy, South Africa, South African foreign relations--Angola, United States, United States foreign relations--Angola
...troop training to Unita in Morocco. The supply of arms to Unita through Zaires Kamina Air Base was probably Saudi-financed before 1986, when the C.I.A. began to use Kamina after the repeal of the Clark amendment. Moral support from the Reagan Administration...
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The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola
Magazine article by Horace Campbell; Monthly Review, Vol. 40, April 1989
Subjects: Angola--Military policy, Armed forces in foreign countries, South African--Angola, Armed forces--Angola, Armed forces--South Africa, Namibia, Namibian foreign relations--South Africa, South Africa--Military policy, South African foreign relations--Namibia
...worked out the cost of the battle and told him he had to "ask his friends to pay." The United States also reactivated the base at Kamina in Zaire, where the CIA was dropping supplies for the South Africans via UNITA. The American support for UNITA, and in essence...
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Still We Rise!
Magazine article; New African, March 2004
...settlers. They used to tell us in a sarcastic tone--using colloquial language--that, and I quote; "Zambia Lo kaena, mali la kamina". This means, Zambia is yours but the money is ours! This situation was a true reflection of the mentality of those folks...
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Return to Rwanda Offers Fresh Start; Camp Provides Ex-Troops Tools to Rejoin Society
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 5, 2002
...Mr. Niyonzima wound up garrisoned at Kamina, a sprawling military base once used by...Jacques Uwimpuhwe, 28, another soldier at Kamina. Then came the Pretoria agreement, and U.N. peacekeepers got access to the Kamina camp. When information trickled into the...
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Rerun of a Familiar Scenario in Zaire
Newspaper article by Arnaud De Borchgrave; The Washington Times, May 13, 1997
Subjects: Kabila, Laurent
...French Foreign Legionnaires airdropped on Kolwezi, and by Belgian paratroopers. Mr. Mobutu also allowed the former Belgian base Kamina to be used by by Jonas Savimbis anti-Marxist Angolan guerrillas which enabled UNITA to wage a 20-year war of attrition against...
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U.S. Fears Angola May Join Rebels in Zaire Offensive: Richardson Tries to Stop Final Battle
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, April 29, 1997
Subjects: Angola, Kabila, Laurent, Richardson, Bill
...Africa, helped Mr. Savimbis rebels against the Marxist Angolan government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. He provided his Kamina air base in southern Zaire as a resupply hub for Mr. Savimbis UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola.)
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Bloodshed Threatens to Erupt Again in Angola
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, July 30, 1998
Subjects: Angola
...yesterday. However, according to an unnamed source, the new Congolese government led by Laurent Kabila was persuaded to open the Kamina airstrip used by his predecessor, Mobutu Sese Seko, during the anti-communist coalition against the Angolan government. Last...


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Kamina
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KAMINA kame na, city (1984 pop. 171,008), Katanga province, S Congo (Kinshasa). It is an administrative and transportation center. A major military airfield is located there. Kamina was used by the Belgians as a center for interventionist actions in the early months of the Congos independence (1960...
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Congo, Democratic Republic of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...situated on the border with Zambia). In addition to Kinshasa, the major urban areas include Boma , Bukavu , Kalemie , Kamina , Kananga , Kisangani , Kolwezi , Likasi , Lubumbashi , Matadi , Mbandaka , and Mbuji-Mayi . The population...


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