Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country's assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital ...

Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.

Patrice Lumumba (R) and ally Joseph Okito (L) were arrested in December 1960 Some have said that with his speech Lumumba signed his own death warrant, but his murder the following year was also ...

Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country's assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital ...

Patrice Lumumba Four years after his death ... where he hoped to lead a revolution against Kasavubu. He was arrested before he got there. His captors, in Congo fashion, saw to it that he was ...

The gold-crowned tooth of Democratic Republic of Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba has been buried more than 60 years after he was assassinated. It is the only part of his body that exists ...