Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office hopes that a trial may finally take place ...

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.

A fiery critic of Belgium's colonial rule, Lumumba became his country's first prime minister after it gained independence in 1960. But he fell out with the former colonial power and with the United ...

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.

The casket will be flown to DR Congo where a three-day national mourning will be held from June 27 to 30, its 62nd anniversary of independence from Belgium. "I would like, in the presence of his ...

Congo’s strategic value skyrocketed during and after World War II because, first, it provided the uranium used to make the atomic bomb and, second, the exigencies of emerging Cold War competition.

Wagner’s presence in CAR could help spread Russian influence elsewhere – into Congo, west Africa, the more strategically important Sahel Western governments, too, are keeping an eye on goings ...

In this conversation, he delves into Belgium's shifting relations with Rwanda, the involvement of European mercenaries in DR Congo, and the impact of international interventions.