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

Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday that they were seeking to put a 92-year-old former diplomat on trial over the 1961 killing ...

Over 60 years after the killing of the first Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, prosecutors in Belgium announced ...

If there was any anti-Belgian hysteria, he said, it was all to be blamed on the mercenaries sitting boldly in Bukavu and issuing ultimatums calling for the return of Moise Tshombe.

The true mercenaries, complain the Tshombe supporters, are the U.N. troops in the Congo, fighting in a war in which they have no interest. ∙ Both sides are right.

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

Lumumba, who was serving as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was killed in 1961 by separatists and Belgian mercenaries. Those involved in the death dissolved his body in ...

Fifty years ago, African mercenaries, American pilots, and Cuban CIA contractors attempted one of the largest hostage rescue missions in history.

He was executed on January 17, 1961, aged just 35, in the southern region of Katanga, with the support of Belgian mercenaries. His body was dissolved in acid and never recovered.