The tooth was seized by authorities in 2016 as part of an investigation by federal public prosecutors into Lumumba’s death. Juliana Lumumba, Patrice Lumumba’s daughter had written a letter to the ...

The family of murdered Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba said Tuesday they hope to get justice, as a Belgian court weighs prosecuting the sole surviving suspect over the 1961 killing.

Patrice Lumumba became Congolese leader when the country gained independence but was assassinated a short while later – Copyright AFP/File Brendan SMIALOWSKI A ...

In a rare judgment on Belgian involvement in a former colony, a Belgian court ordered on Tuesday that a 93-year-old former diplomat stand trial for the 1961 assassination of Congo’s former prime ...