Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its bloody past and ...

Patrice Lumumba was the DRC's first Black Prime Minister and was only in office for a few months before he was overthrown in a military coup and later assassinated. A gold crowned tooth that belonged ...

In 2002, the Belgian government issued a formal apology to the government and people of Congo as well as the family of Patrice Lumumba for its role in his death. Belgium was not the only country to ...

June 20 (UPI) --The Belgian government agreed on Monday to return a gold tooth that belonged to murdered Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba to his family. A symbolic handover ceremony held by the ...

The family of slain Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba said Friday it hoped to finally turn a grim page of history as former colonial master Belgium prepares to return the last remains of the... Already ...

Patrice Lumumba's assassination -- and the brutal history of Belgian control of the Congo -- have been enduring sources of pain between the two countries - Copyright ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its ...

Will justice ever be served for Patrice Lumumba? Aged just 35, the charismatic hero of Belgian Congo's independence was assassinated 60 years ago in a plot linked to the fledgling nation's colonial ...

A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba spins its web in many directions. By Alissa Wilkinson The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am ...

Belgium on Monday handed over the last remains of slain Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba -- a tooth -- to his family, turning a page on a grim chapter in its colonial past.