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Dar es Salaam. In August 1960, as Congo simmered in post-independence instability, a secret cable marked ‘Top Secret’ from Langley, Virginia, landed at the CIA station in Léopoldville (now ...
Patrice Lumumba was her father. That's why she continues to demand the truth about an assassination for which no one has ...
Etienne Davignon, 92, is accused of involvement in the detention of Patrice Lumumba before he was killed in 1961.
Over 60 years after the killing of the first Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, prosecutors in Belgium announced ...
Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Shortly before noon on a Thursday in June 1960, 34-year-old Patrice Lumumba stepped up to the podium at the Palace of the Nation in Leopoldville (current ...
In the event, Patrice Lumumba, 35 years old, was murdered by his Congolese rivals with Belgian assistance in early 1961, three days before John F. Kennedy’s inauguration.
Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday that they were seeking to put a 92-year-old former diplomat on trial over the 1961 killing ...
Two sons of the late Congo Premier, Patrice Lumumba, stand beside Madame Ishak at the memorial mass for the slain former Premier, in a church in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 19, ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It's not immediately clear ...
Patrice Lumumba was a ally of Kwame Nkrumah, who in 1965, five years after the murder of Mr. Lumumba, published a book called Neo-Colonialism, ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It’s not immediately clear whet… ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It’s not immediately clear ...