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Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the ...

Over 60 years after the killing of the first Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, prosecutors in Belgium announced ...

Etienne Davignon, 92, is accused of involvement in the detention of Patrice Lumumba before he was killed in 1961.

Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday that they were seeking to put a 92-year-old former diplomat on trial over the 1961 killing ...

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Belgian prosecutors are preparing to charge Etienne Davignon (92), a former diplomat accused of being involved in the murder ...

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Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office hopes that a trial may finally take place ...