Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patrice Lumumba (1925 - 1961) leader of Belgian Congo National Movement, and first Prime Minister of the Belgian Congo (Democratic ...

Étienne Davignon had been set to stand trial in connection with the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. By Lynsey Chutel No one apart ...

The family of murdered Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba said Tuesday they hope to get justice, as a Belgian court weighs prosecuting the sole surviving suspect over the 1961 killing.

The brutal assassination of anti-colonial icon Patrice Lumumba has remained a festering wound in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo for over six decades. Now, in a historic pivot toward ...

Patrice Lumumba's only surviving remains, a tooth, were laid to rest in Kinshasa in 2022 A Belgian court has ruled that a former diplomat can stand trial in connection with the killing in 1961 of ...

Patrice Lumumba is the hero of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s truncated bid for complete independence. He was assassinated by local counter-revolutionary forces with the help of the CIA and ...

In a rare judgment on Belgian involvement in a former colony, a Belgian court ordered on Tuesday that a 93-year-old former diplomat stand trial for the 1961 assassination of Congo's former prime ...

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 ...

Sixty-five years after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, Belgian justice has ordered that a former Belgian diplomat, Étienne Davignon, be committed to trial. He is suspected of ...

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 ...

A portrait of slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba is carried as his remains leave for Shilatembo where the leader was killed along with two of his compatriots, at the airport in ...