Lumumba remains a leading figure in Congolese and African history. He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose assassination shocked the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday ...

This dossier was collaboratively produced by the Centre Culturel Andrée Blouin, the Centre for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa (CERECK), Likambo Ya Mabele (Land Sovereignty Movement), and ...

The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and Rwanda President Paul Kagame have expressed displeasure over the ...

In Africa, where nationalist leaders were often murdered or disappeared in the wake of... Casualty of the Congo / Executed African nationalist leader passionately portrayed in 'Lumumba' ...

Lumumba, the leader of the Congolese National Movement party, was instrumental in securing Congo’s independence from Belgium and became the new republic’s first Prime Minister in 1960.

Leaders for the rebel movement said they were in Uganda ... " to guard Goma's strategic airport that would feature soldiers from other African countries as well as M23 and the Congolese national ...

Introduction. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, originally a four-hour film, is still a very long 151-minute documentary by Johan Grimonprez.While the filmmaker may have at times oversimplified the ...

Congo’s national intelligence agency (Agence Nationale de Renseignements, ANR) arrested about 30 pro-democracy activists and others on March 15 in Kinshasa, the capital, following a workshop on ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It’s not immediately clear whether ...