The anti-colonial politician served as Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo for two months in 1960 before he was ...

Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo after it gained independence from Belgium in 1960, ...

Hell isn't hot enough for Etienne Davignon.

A 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat was ordered on Tuesday to stand trial for participation in "war crimes" over his role ...

Etienne Davignon, a 93-year-old ex-diplomat, is accused of involvement in the assassination of the independence hero.

Family of the then PM, Patrice Lumumba, welcome decision to charge Étienne Davignon as ‘beginning of a reckoning’ ...

A Belgian court orders a 93-year-old former diplomat to stand trial over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination, in a rare case ...

More than six decades after Congo's beloved first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was abducted and murdered by Belgium-backed ...

A Brussels court has ordered a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat to stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese ...

Etienne Davignon, the only surviving suspect, is ordered to stand trial over war crimes tied to Patrice Lumumba's killing six decades ago. The case represents a historic moment in confronting ...

Along that riverbank a thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files. . . . Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! Boom, steal the pigmies. . . . Boom, kill the white ...

Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels, Belgian ...