Lumumba remains a leading figure in Congolese and African history. He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose ...

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

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

Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the ...

On June 30, 1960, Patrice Lumumba freed the Congo from Belgian colonial rule and became the country's first prime minister. He promised democracy, prosperity and an end to the exploitation of ...

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 Davignon is the only one ...

Over 60 years after the killing of the first Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, prosecutors in Belgium announced Tuesday they were looking to try the last of 10 Belgians accused of complicity ...

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

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 ...

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 ...