Dar es Salaam. In August 1960, as Congo simmered in post-independence instability, a secret cable marked ‘Top Secret’ from Langley, Virginia, landed at the CIA station in Léopoldville (now ...

The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went ...

Belgian prosecutors are preparing to charge Etienne Davignon (92), a former diplomat accused of being involved in the murder of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba. ・Belgian prosecutors are ...

A s in a bad dream, everything seemed to be moving at half speed. But slowly, the Congo’s balance was tipping toward the forces that bore the label of reckless Patrice Lumumba, though he was ...

Most bewildering factor in the Congo crisis is 34-year-old Premier Lumumba. ... Unscathed, as usual, Patrice Lumumba reached New York’s Idlewild airport this week.

Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo [Pictorial Parade/Getty Images] Belgian prosecutors say they are seeking to put on trial a 92-year-old ...

Independence prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, ... we would have expected a collective and sound solution to end eastern Congo’s complex security crisis. It has not happened.

When the Democratic Republic of Congo celebrates 60 years of independence from Belgium on Tuesday, it will also remember Patrice Lumumba, one of its enduring national heroes and icon of those who ...

The Congo became independent of Belgium on 30 June 1960. Even as the elected government led by Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba took charge, the southern province of Katanga seceded.

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