Roadblock: 2 platoons1 reconnaissance detachment Roadblock: 1 killed 3 wounded Other major events The Port Francqui incident, also known as the Port Francqui massacre, was an incident during the Congo Crisis where rogue Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ANC) forces engaged in combat with UN peacekeepers, primarily from Ghana.

On April 26, 1961, Minister of Interior of Luluabourg Province Emery Wafwana traveled to Port Francqui, where he made a public speech threatening to have the United Nations Operation in the Congo (UN) forces disarm the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ANC).

[2] Wafwana was escorted by the UN to the Hôtel des Palmes to avoid roadblocks the ANC had illegally set up in the area, something the local UN forces had tolerated.

[3][4] On April 27, the Ghanaian Brigade stationed at Luluabourg received a report of this incident, and two platoons and a reconnaissance contingent were transferred to Port Francqui as a relief force.

[1][2][3][4][5] Concurrently, the ANC attacked the Ghanaian forces of Port Francqui, who were scattered about in poor defensive positions and armed with obsolete No.

[1][3][4] General Henry Alexander, the chief of staff of the Ghanaian Army, attributed the affair to the UN officers' inexperience and the UN's insistence on using persuasion with factions in the Congo instead of armed force.

Three British officers belonging to the so-called Ghana Battalion and three Swedish soldiers, responsible for transportation and movements, were attacked by the Congolese national army.