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[[File:Colonel_Mobutu.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|Colonel Mobutu watches Lumumba's transport to Thysville in 1960.]]
The decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s resulted in several proxy Cold War confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over the dozens of newly independent, non-aligned nations. The first such confrontation occurred in the former Belgian Congo, which gained its independence on June 30, 1960.
