secessionist State of Katanga

Target entity: secessionist State of Katanga
Context triple: [Patrice Lumumba, opposedBy, secessionist State of Katanga]

• A. Republic of Zoutpansberg
  The Republic of Zoutpansberg was a short-lived 19th-century Boer polity in what is now northern South Africa, centered around the Zoutpansberg mountain region before being absorbed into the South African Republic.
• B. Congo Free State
  The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
• C. Bissau Autonomous Sector
  Bissau Autonomous Sector is a special administrative region in Guinea-Bissau that encompasses the national capital, Bissau, and functions similarly to a capital district.
• D. Kingdom of Kongo
  The Kingdom of Kongo was a powerful precolonial Central African state, centered in what is now northern Angola and surrounding regions, known for its complex political organization and early contact with European powers.
• E. Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi
  The Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi was a former United Nations–administered territory in central Africa, comprising present-day Rwanda and Burundi under Belgian administration until their independence in the early 1960s.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: secessionist State of Katanga
Target entity description: The secessionist State of Katanga was a mineral-rich breakaway region in the Congo that declared independence in 1960 under Moïse Tshombe, becoming a focal point of Cold War tensions and conflict during the Congo Crisis.

• A. Republic of Zoutpansberg
  The Republic of Zoutpansberg was a short-lived 19th-century Boer polity in what is now northern South Africa, centered around the Zoutpansberg mountain region before being absorbed into the South African Republic.
• B. Congo Free State
  The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
• C. Bissau Autonomous Sector
  Bissau Autonomous Sector is a special administrative region in Guinea-Bissau that encompasses the national capital, Bissau, and functions similarly to a capital district.
• D. Kingdom of Kongo
  The Kingdom of Kongo was a powerful precolonial Central African state, centered in what is now northern Angola and surrounding regions, known for its complex political organization and early contact with European powers.
• E. Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi
  The Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi was a former United Nations–administered territory in central Africa, comprising present-day Rwanda and Burundi under Belgian administration until their independence in the early 1960s.
• F. None of above. chosen