Lumumba's last days remain among the darkest chapters of Africa's independence era. Ousted in a September 1960 coup led by ...

Belgium's federal court said on Friday it would hand over a tooth, suspected to be the only remains of the murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, to his family, a move that could ...

One could say DR Congo has carried a curse for the 65 years since it gained independence. It is the curse of Patrice Lumumba, the charismatic, dynamic first prime minister of the vast country, whom ...