Cold War Crisis in the Congo - Moïse Tshombe vs the United Nations (1961)

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On 28 September 1961, ITN traveled to the new Congolese State of Katanga, on the edge of a bloody civil war following a series of failed UN peacekeeping interventions in the region. Secessionist President Moïse Tshombe, whose breakway state was backed by the Belgian-owned Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, was interviewed by ITN's Peter Woods just ten days after the mysterious death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash departing the province. The resultant succession crisis that this triggered at the United Nations placed the Congo firmly at the centre of the Cold War, as the now weakened institution faced intensified calls for a "Troika".

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