"8 dead" . . . . "Belgium: 80" . "Egypt: ~50" . "1977-05-26Z"^^ . . . "Morocco: 1,300\u20131,500 Paratroopers" . "Shaba I"@en . "Zairian victory" . . "*" . "France: 20-65" . . . "*FNLC expelled from Shaba" . . "1,600\u20133,000 FNLC fighters" . . "Front for the National Liberation of the Congo(FNLC)" . . . "Supported by:" . . "'''Supported by:" . "Angola" . "Zaire: 3,000-4,000" . "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."@en .