Shaba II

Shaba II
	Part of the Shaba Invasions and the Cold War
	; Location of Shaba in Zaire.
Date	11 May – June 1978
Location	Shaba, Zaire
Result	Zairian victory; mutual end of support for other nations' rebel groups
Belligerents
Zaire; France; Belgium; Morocco; United States;	FNLC
Commanders and leaders
Mobutu Sese Seko; Guy Méry; Valéry Giscard d'Estaing; Leo Tindemans; Abdelkader Loubaris; John C. Stetson;	Nathaniel Mbumba
Casualties and losses
Zaire:; 14 killed; 8 wounded; Civilians:; 500 killed; France:; 11 killed; 20 wounded; Belgium:; 1 killed; Morocco:; 1 paratrooper killed; European civilians:; 120 killed; United States:; 1 aircraft slightly damaged; 1 crewman wounded	Katanga:; 250 killed; 160 captured

Shaba II was a brief conflict fought in the Zairean province of Shaba (now Katanga) in 1978. The conflict broke out on 11 May 1978 after 6,500 rebels from the Congolese National Liberation Front (FNLC), a Katangese separatist militia, crossed the border from Angola into Zaire in an attempt to achieve the province's secession from the Zairian regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. The FNLC captured the important mining town of Kolwezi.

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