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32-696: Delvaux is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Delvaux (1918–1985), Congolese politician André Delvaux (1926–2002), Belgian film director Anne Delvaux (born 1970), Belgian politician Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (1915–2005), Belgian composer Henry Delvaux de Fenffe , Belgian politician Jean Delvaux (died 1595), Belgian Roman Catholic monk Laurent Delvaux (1696–1778), Flemish sculptor Paul Delvaux (1897–1994), Belgian painter Other [ edit ] Delvaux (company) Belgian manufacturer of fine leather luxury goods 1848 Delvaux , main-belt asteroid Topics referred to by

64-562: A base in the Congo near the southern border. This was in part attributed to his longstanding personal friendship with FNLA President Holden Roberto ; the two had previously been teammates for the Congolese football side Daring Club Motema Pembe . Adoula also had an interest in winning the support of Angolan refugees in Léopoldville, which grew in number after 1961. Furthermore, he hoped to undermine

96-628: A clerk for various commercial firms. He did this until 1952 when he accepted a senior position at the Belgian Congo Central Bank , becoming the first African to hold a significant post there. In 1948 he became a member of the Conseil pour le Travail et la Prevoyance Sociale Indigene. In 1954, Adoula joined the Belgian Socialist Party and subsequently became the representative for Action Socialiste in Léopoldville. He also enrolled in

128-532: A growing amount of opposition from the nationalist elements of MNC-Lumumba and Gizenga's faction of the Parti Solidaire Africain . He also never garnered much popular support across the country. As 1961 drew to a close, several Lumumba sympathisers withdrew from Adoula's government and Gizenga retired to Stanleyville . Gizenga's persisting counter-government in the east represented the first major challenge to Adoula's authority. In January 1962, Adoula

160-419: A heart attack and went to Lausanne , Switzerland for treatment. He succumbed to an illness and died there on 24 May 1978. Adoula was an anti-clerical and a socialist. He was well known publicly for his belief in socialism, but it was non- Marxist in nature; he was an anti-communist . In December 1957 he explained his beliefs to Présence Africaine : "Being a Socialist, I am for the transformation of

192-678: A new government upon Kasa-Vubu. Adoula began attracting interest from the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a liberal, anti-communist alternative to Lumumba. In early 1961, the United States began to push for an Adoula-led government. United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk directed CIA agents to ensure that Adoula would become the next Congolese prime minister. The CIA acted in concert with other Western intelligence agencies in bribing Congolese parliamentarians to support Adoula. On 1 August Adoula

224-533: A representative of this party. Every Congolese delegation had a Belgian adviser or Belgian advisers at its disposal. In the case of PNP, this included later Minister of Foreign Affairs Henri Simonet . Delvaux occupied the position of Resident Minister of Congo in Belgium in the ephemeral Lumumba Government , the first government of the Congo, which gained its independence from Belgium on 30 June 1960. On 5 September 1960, however, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu dismissed

256-768: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Albert Delvaux Albert Delvaux was born on 8 May 1918 to a Belgian father and a Muyaka mother. In 1959, he became the Secretary General of the weakly organised Parti National du Progrès (PNP), a party closely aligned with the Belgian colonisers. He participated in the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference in January-February 1960 in Brussels as

288-661: Is named after Delvaux. Cyrille Adoula Cyrille Adoula (13 September 1921 – 24 May 1978) was a Congolese trade unionist and politician. He was the prime minister of the Republic of the Congo , from 2 August 1961 until 30 June 1964. Cyrille Adoula was born to middle-class Bangala parents on 13 September 1921 in Léopoldville , Belgian Congo . He attended a Catholic primary school in his youth and received secondary education at St. Joseph's Institute, graduating after five years of studies in 1941. That year he began working as

320-656: The Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique . Once he became one of the top Congolese delegates in the association he resigned from his bank post and devoted his time to politics. In 1957 he attended the International Labour Conference in Geneva as an adviser to the Belgian delegation. At a Fédération Générale conference in 1959 he successfully lobbied for the Congolese branch of the association to become independent, subsequently becoming secretary-general of

352-493: The Mouvement National Congolais (MNC). Diverse in membership, the party sought to peacefully achieve Congolese independence, promote the political education of the populace, and eliminate regionalism. Adoula became party vice president. While Lumumba became increasingly strident and nationalistic, Adoula remained relatively moderate. In 1959, he and Albert Kalonji made an unsuccessful attempt to oust Lumumba from

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384-554: The United Nations Operation in the Congo use force to put down the rebellion in the proclaimed State of Katanga . President Joseph Kasa-Vubu dismissed Lumumba in September 1960 and appointed Iléo to be his replacement, though Parliament refused to confirm him. Adoula briefly served as Iléo's minister of interior. Lumumba was definitively removed from power and eventually killed in a coup by Colonel Joseph Mobutu , who forced

416-451: The "House of African Nationalists" to be opened in Léopoldville for their use. Despite this, the funds never proved forthcoming and the liberation movements struggled with logistics and organisation. Following the defeat of Katanga, Adoula organised a new "Government of Reconciliation" in April 1963. From Gizenga's arrest in early 1962 until Parliament's adjournment in September 1963, most of

448-610: The Lumumba government . According to the Loi fondamentale (Fundamental Law) and based on Belgian constitutional practice, every decision by the President has to be countersigned by a minister. Together with Minister of Foreign Affairs Justin Bomboko , Delvaux signed the presidential ordinance dismissing the Lumumba government. With the installment of the new government of Joseph Iléo , Delvaux became

480-577: The Minister of Work. Later, in the government of Cyrille Adoula , Delvaux was the Minister of Public Works. After the second coup d'état of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu in 1965, Delvaux held several offices like a People's Commissioner ( Member of Parliament ) from 1977, and member of the Political Bureau of the state party Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution , where he was the dean of the Bureau. His mandate at

512-520: The Political Bureau ended on 18 February 1981. Through the renaming campaign in the framework of Authenticité , Albert Delvaux changed his name to Mafuta Kizola. Delvaux was the father of seven girls and three boys, including Hector Delvaux Mafuta (16 February 1956 — 9 April 2014), pilot of the Congolese presidency . The community Binza Delvaux in the Ngaliema commune of Congo's capital Kinshasa

544-787: The Portuguese colonial authorities, which were rumored to be supporting Tshombe's efforts in mid-1963 to dislodge his administration. In November of that year his government forced one of the FNLA's chief rivals, the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola , to close its Léopoldville offices and drove its leadership out of the city. Under Adoula, the Congo joined the Pan-African Freedom Movement for East and Central Africa . He agreed to supply funds to various liberation movements in southern Africa and arranged for an office building dubbed

576-547: The Senate's first session on 17 June 1960, Adoula proposed a resolution which was unanimously adopted, calling for representatives of the Union of South Africa to be barred from attending the Congo's independence celebrations due to the country's Apartheid policy. Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister and offered Adoula a ministerial position in his government but the latter refused to accept it. Adoula expressed his dissatisfaction with

608-539: The dissent Adoula faced from the left came in the form of obstructionist activities in the legislative process. In October the radical Comité National de Libération (CNL) formed in Brazzaville with the goal of overthrowing Adoula's government. By December a CNL-instigated revolt had emerged in Kwilu Province . The larger Simba rebellion of 1964 saw much of the eastern Congo overrun by leftist guerrilla forces. During

640-668: The end of the Katangese secession, he in earnest attempted to develop the Congo's foreign relations, particularly with other African states in a Pan-African image. As part of this, he supported decolonisation in southern Africa. Adoula denounced Portuguese rule in neighboring Angola , which won him favour from the Afro-Asian bloc of non-aligned states. He actively supported the Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (FNLA) resistance group throughout his tenure and allowed it to maintain

672-712: The goal immediately began, but faced strong opposition from the Lumumbist bloc, which felt that the Katanga problem should be resolved before any discussion concerning the division of the provinces. On the international level, Adoula pursued a policy of neutrality. On 4 September 1961 he attended the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade that resulted in the foundation of the Non-Aligned Movement . Following

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704-512: The new federation's western chapter. In this capacity he traveled to West Germany and Israel to meet with other trade unionists and became a deputy committee member of the International Congress of Federated Trade Unions. He also cultivated a relationship with AFL–CIO unionist Irving Brown . In October 1958 a group of Léopoldville évolués including Adoula, Patrice Lumumba , Gaston Diomi Ndongala and Joseph Iléo established

736-657: The party and formed their own faction, MNC-Kalonji. With the independence of the Republic of the Congo in the summer of 1960, Adoula became a senator in Parliament , representing the city of Coquilhatville . Though elected by the Équateur provincial assembly with the support of Parti de l'Unité Nationale, he identified himself as an independent. He requested that his membership of the International Congress of Federated Trade Unions be suspended so that he could devote his time to his new position. Nevertheless he remained well connected with trade unions and labour organisations. In

768-414: The present society into one benefiting the entire collectivity. And for this, I conceive the collectivization of the means of production and the lower echelon workers of the latter. In order to attain this goal, I only see one means: the struggle of the classes, the permanent class struggle until this result is obtained." In most written histories Adoula is portrayed as a weak, ineffective prime minister and

800-460: The run-up to new elections in the summer, three new political coalitions in the country emerged. One of these was the Rassemblement des démocrates congolaise (RADECO), which consisted of 50 small organisations led by Jacques Massa. Centrist in ideology, it failed to amass much popular support. Adoula was elected as its president on 14 June. Still unable to contain the leftist insurrections, Adoula

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864-530: The six original provinces into 22 new ones. In November 1965, Adoula returned to the Congo after Mobutu had seized power. He was accommodating of Mobutu's new regime and served as the Congolese Ambassador to the United States and Ambassador to Belgium . In 1969 he became Foreign Minister. He fell ill in May 1970. Mobutu took charge of the portfolio and Adoula retired from politics. In 1978 Adoula suffered

896-545: The ultimate composition of the government and told Lumumba that he had erred in choosing to be Prime Minister of a cabinet, which faced heavy criticism from different circles. The Congo fell into disorder shortly after independence, as the army's mutiny and the secession of the Katanga Province under Moïse Tshombe created the Congo Crisis . Adoula increasingly distanced himself from Lumumba, but continuously lobbied that

928-406: The use of European mercenaries, acting to suppress them would only increase the Congo's reliance on external forces. He also accused Tshombe of antagonizing opposition and called for the creation of a transitional government to oversee a settlement without him. Tshombe responded by blaming the conflict on Adoula, accusing him of weakening the central government and Balkanising the country by dividing

960-443: Was able to successfully arrest Gizenga. He subsequently removed the remaining Lumumba supporters from his government, thereby excluding the largest political force in the country from power. During his inaugural address following his investiture , Adoula had declared that his government would "take adequate measures permitting each region to administer itself according to its own profound aspirations". Legislative efforts to achieve

992-640: Was appointed formateur of a new government by Kasa-Vubu. The following day he presented his government to Parliament with himself as Prime Minister. Like Lumumba had before him, Adoula also gave himself responsibility over the national defence portfolio. The government was delivered a vote of confidence in the Chamber, 121 votes to none with one abstention, and the Senate voiced its support via acclamation . Adoula managed to balance his cabinet with many former Lumumba supporters. Antoine Gizenga became deputy prime minister. Still, as his tenure progressed, Adoula faced

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1024-503: Was forced by Kasa-Vubu to resign. He then voluntarily left the country. In a New Year's message at the beginning of 1965, Prime Minister Moise Tshombe , Adoula's replacement, rejected conciliation with the rebels and called for their total defeat. Adoula dissented and put forth his own "African Plan" for the Congo in the weekly Jeune Afrique . He insisted that any long term solution for peace and stability required input from rebel leaders, emphasizing that since their defeat would require

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