Patrice Émery Lumumba remains a central figure in the history of African decolonization, serving as the first Prime Minister ...

Evidence emerged that Eisenhower ordered the CIA to eliminate Patrice Lumumba in 1960, as revealed in a 1975 interview linked ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Ex-Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala was sentenced Monday in France to 30 years in prison over atrocities committed two decades ago during the Second Congo War, in a verdict ...

The United States accused Rwanda on Friday of fueling instability and war as a Rwanda-backed advance of the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo threatens to derail US President ...

In an Islamic State Central Africa Province video release, Bonge La Chuma issues a warning to Christians that they have three options: convert to Islam, pay the jizya [tax on non-Muslims], or die. As ...

The president trumpeted a peace pact in a meeting with the two countries’ leaders that includes incentives for U.S. access to minerals. Fighting in eastern Congo has continued in the months since an ...

An elderly Italian priest on Tuesday appeared to downplay the alleged role of a former rebel leader on trial in France for a wave of atrocities against civilians during the Second Congo War. The ...

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An illustration of former Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) President Mobutu Sese Seko, at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Gombe commune in Kinshasa (Arsene Mpiana | AFP via Getty Images) ...

Former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala Wednesday said France's judiciary was not competent to try him as he went on trial in Paris over atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo more ...

Vice-president of the delegation of M23 rebels, Roger Lumbala attends a press briefing in Uganda’s capital Kampala on January 8, 2013. [AFP] Former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala goes on trial ...