No one apart from the Congolese people has ever paid a price for the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba. By Stuart A. Reid Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ...

Fifty years ago on January 17, Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the anti-colonial struggle in the Congo and its first democratically-elected prime minister, was removed from prison and murdered in the ...

Patrice Lumumba was an inspirational hero to millions of his countrymen. In the eyes of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, the Congolese nationalist was erratic, inept, and “an ignorant pawn” of ...

A 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat was ordered on Tuesday to stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba, in a decision hailed as a major step towards ...

Evidence of direct Belgian government complicity in the execution of the Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba must be made public and those implicated questioned, a historian demanded yesterday.

Patrice Lumumba was the DRC's first Black Prime Minister and was only in office for a few months before he was overthrown in a military coup and later assassinated. A gold crowned tooth that belonged ...

The Congolese prime minister with a tragically brief tenure lives on as a secular saint, much like his contemporaries JFK and Che. A tooth will change hands during a solemn ceremony in Brussels this ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its ...

BRUSSELS – BRUSSELS (AP) — A group of legal activists formally requested war-crimes charges Monday against a dozen Belgian government officials and military officers widely suspected in the ...