Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

Two years ago, the 60th anniversary of Congo’s independence reignited calls to put Lumumba’s soul to rest. Protesters gathered outside the Belgian Embassy in Kinshasa, seeking restitution of ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice ... The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around Congo ...

So swift has been the pace of nationalist pressure in the Belgian Congo, and so harsh its violence ... were resigned to an offer of full independence for the Congolese this year.

Rwanda suspended development cooperation with Belgium for trying to “sabotage” its access to financing amid disagreements over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo's government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice ... of Lumumba's tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around ...