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 wheth ...

Accordingly, UNSC Resolution 143 (1960) led to the establishment of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (known by its ...

While the Democratic Republic of Congo reels from a new rebel offensive in the east, its capital in the west, Kinshasa, ...

Patrice Lumumba (Congo, 1961) Perhaps the most tragic case of neocolonial interference in Africa is Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lumumba’s crime ...

Munene gave a historical account of the Congo crisis, tracing it to the Berlin Conference of 1884, and argued that the country is “the source of both Pan-African agony and Pan-African consciousness”, ...

Listen to Patrice Lumumba's announcing Belgian Congo's independence followed by an Independence cha-cha-cha Within days things fell apart. The army mutinied against Belgian officers. The main ...

a fervent supporter of Lumumba's, who, after an exile in the Middle East, went to China for guerrilla training. Back home, he launched a rebellion in July 1963 in western Congo. Meanwhile ...

At least 33 deaths have been recorded after flooding and erosion caused by torrential rains in Kinshasa, reports Radio Okapi.

It was the culmination of a political earthquake as leaders from Ghana's founder, Kwame Nkrumah, to Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, became global icons of postcolonial freedom.

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 Lumumba’s remains ...