The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday celebrated the 100th anniversary of Patrice Lumumba’s birth. An official ...

Patrice Lumumba had his body dissolved in acid in 1961, and his gold-capped tooth - his only remains - was kept in Belgium ...

Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday that they were seeking to put a 92-year-old former diplomat on trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. What we're seeking is, first and ...

Over 60 years after the killing of the first Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, prosecutors in Belgium announced ...

He used white mercenaries to defend Katanga's secession from the Congo a few years ago. ... is widely believed to have been responsible for the death of Leftist Patrice Lumumba in 1961.

Pointed Question. The Congo will indeed be poor unless it can keep Union Minière’s mines, which produce more than 6% of the world’s copper and 60% of its cobalt, running efficiently.

“All these things were [swept] under the carpet,” says Grimonprez, who was born in 1962. “Nevertheless, Belgium’s history is so tied to the Congo.

Etienne Davignon, 92, is accused of involvement in the detention of Patrice Lumumba before he was killed in 1961.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, ... but he was assassinated within a year in 1961.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) -- Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday that they were seeking to put a 92-year-old former diplomat on trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Etienne ...