A curator said the coffin containing the gold-capped tooth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo independence hero Patrice ...

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized.

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized. It is not ...

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized. It is not ...

Congo has opened an investigation into vandalism on Monday evening at the mausoleum housing the tooth - thought to be the only known remains - of independence hero Patrice Lumumba, the culture ...

The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around Congo, with the tooth taken ...

which in February 1961 burst into the United Nations building in New York to protest the Belgium-assisted assassination the month before of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's democratically elected prime ...

Director Johan Grimonprez’s main narrative unfolds in Africa, as he examines how the promise of the Congo was cut down in the first flowering of the country’s independence, which it gained in ...

"Congo has blessed us with its mineral wealth ... than seven months with the murder of pan-Africanist leader Patrice Lumumba in a coup supported by Belgium and the US, which installed dictator ...

"But there is this black mark," he added, referring to the assassination of Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a martyr for the pan-African movement.