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and turned their attention to détente beyond the borders of the Middle East, leading, eventually, to the War of Attrition which presaged the Yom Kippur War. The patrons realized too late that the conflict was so dangerously great they had lost control over their clients. Nasser held the key and, although he did not want the war, he became its victim because of his pan-Arab, pan-Islamic and pan-African
African states led by Cameroon, Liberia, Nigeria and Togo, which held a meeting in Monrovia on 8–12 May 1961. The ‘Monrovia group’ would soon include 22 African countries. These states were more moderate in their approach towards the Congo. In general, their insistence on pan-Africanism was not as ‘enthusiastic’ as that of the Casablanca group. 107 On 22 July 1961, the Congolese Parliament reconvened