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Supported by: |combatant2= Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC) Supported by: |commander1= Mobutu Sese Seko Mampa Ngakwe Salamay Abdelkader Loubaris〔Le Sahara occidental, enjeu maghrébin,''page 304''〕 Hamidou Laanigri Ahmed Dlimi〔〔Robin Wright, "Moroccan Army Chief Visits Area of Fighting in Zaire", ''Washington Post, 15 April 1977; accessed (via ProQuest ).〕 Anwar El-Sadat Leo Tindemans Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |commander2= Nathaniel Mbumba |strength1=''Zaire:'' 3,000-4,000〔(Katangan Gendarmes ) Leigh Ingram-Seal〕 ''Morocco:'' 1,300〔–1,500 Paratroopers ''Egypt:'' ~50 ''France:'' 20-65〔 Berman and Sams cite the lower number.〕 ''Belgium:'' 80〔 |strength2=1,600–3,000 FNLC fighters |casualties1= 8 dead〔 |casualties2=Unknown }} Shaba I was a conflict in Zaire's Shaba (Katanga) Province lasting from March 8, 1977, to May 26, 1977. The conflict began when the Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC), a group of about 2,000 Katangan Congolese soldiers (veterans of the Congo Crisis, the Angolan War of Independence, and the Angolan Civil War) crossed the border into Shaba from Angola. The FNLC made quick progress through the region, due to sympathizing locals and to the disorganization of the Zairian military (''Forces Armées Zaïroises'', or FAZ). Traveling east from Zaire's border with Angola, the rebels reached Mutshatsha, a small town near to the key mining town of Kolwezi. President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire accused Angola, Cuba, and the Soviet Union of sponsoring the rebels. Motivated by anti-Communism and by economic interests, the Western Bloc and China sent assistance to support the Mobutu regime. The most significant intervention, orchestrated by the Safari Club, featured a French airlift of Moroccan troops into the war zone. This intervention turned the tide of the conflict.〔Chris Cook and John Stevenson. ''The Routledge Companion to World History Since 1914'', 2005. Pages 321-322.〕 U.S. President Jimmy Carter approved the shipment of supplies to Zaire, but refused to send weapons or troops and maintained that there was no evidence of Cuban involvement. The FAZ terrorized the population of the province during and after the war. Bombing and other acts of violence led 50,000–70,000 refugees to flee into Angola and Zambia. Journalists were prevented from entering the Province and several were arrested. Mobutu nevertheless won a public relations victory, and ensured continuing economic assistance from governments, from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, and from a group of private lenders led by Citibank. The FAZ and outside powers clashed again with insurgents in the 1978 conflict called Shaba II. ==Background== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shaba I」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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