Belgian ex-diplomat Etienne Davignon is defending himself in Brussels over his alleged role in the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba — a landmark case in Belgium's reckoning with its ...

The family of murdered Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba said Tuesday they hope to get justice, as a Belgian court ...

The Federal Minister responsible for asylum and migration Anneleen Van Bossuyt (Flemish nationalist) plans to visit the ...

Congolese independence hero Patrice Emery Lumumba shot to fame on June 30, 1960 with a blistering independence speech against ...

A Belgian court will hold a hearing Tuesday on whether a former senior diplomat should go on trial over the 1961 killing of ...

Roland-Gilbert Okito Lumumba's father Patrice was the country's first post-independence prime minister.

A night of roadblocks, ambush fire and a close-quarters charge in Elisabethville turned one young officer’s last battle into one of UN peacekeeping’s most remembered stories.

"We are treated as a distracted people, a people who don't know what they want."This was not spoken by a foreign analyst nor a cynical diplomat describing DR Congo from afar. It came from Basile ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Image of two Congo musicians playing a xylophone and a drum. Image is a duplicate of that used for item EEPA 1987-241134, No. 134. Xylophone, of ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Algeria player Mohamed Amoura says he meant no disrespect after he appeared to mock the statuesque Congo supporter paying tribute to slain independence hero Patrice Lumumba at ...

The two men are the latest victims of a widening crackdown on Congo’s opposition. The failure of an American-brokered deal to end a conflict in the east that pits Congo’s army against Rwandan troops ...