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From moral apology to criminal reckoning: Why the Lumumba trial could redefine global accountability

Blitz 04 Apr 2026
After sixty-five years, the assassination of Patrice Lumumba is no longer being treated as an unfortunate episode wrapped in diplomatic language ... The Lumumba family has spent years dismantling that framework.
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Congo's Lumumba statue fan misses World Cup playoff because of visa problems

Newsday 01 Apr 2026
Congo’s famous living statue “Lumumba Vea” will miss the World Cup playoff against Jamaica because he was unable to get a visa in time.
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Congo Lumumba Statue

Citrus County Chronicle 31 Mar 2026
FILE - Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, a DR Congo fan impersonating late Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, strikes a pose during the Africa Cup of Nations group D soccer match between Botswana and DR Congo in Rabat, Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025 ... .
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It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price.

New York Times 26 Mar 2026
No one apart from the Congolese people has ever paid a price for the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba ... .
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US role in Africa delivers fake democracies

Mail Guardian South Africa 26 Mar 2026
Yet, if we strip away the rhetoric, the pattern is stark ... The paradox is brutal ... History’s verdict is unrelenting ... Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba and Thomas Sankara were toppled not for tyranny but for the audacity to imagine Africa free ... ....
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‘It’s going to give us closure’: could there finally be justice for the murder of Patrice Lumumba?

The Observer 25 Mar 2026
Patrice Lumumba was assassinated more than 60 years ago, but his killing still hangs over the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... Unquestionable betrayal … troops capturing Patrice Lumumba before his detention ... Lumumba was a Congolese.
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How a boy born on World TB Day helped turn the tide on SA’s deadliest TB

Mail Guardian South Africa 24 Mar 2026
Norbert Ndjeka was born on March 24 1965, in what is today Sankuru Province in the central part of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...Medicine”. “Medicine” ... “You wouldn’t find books about Mandela anywhere else, for example, or even Patrice Lumumba ... ....
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Belgian court orders trial of ex-diplomat for aiding murder of first Congo prime minister

Jurist 20 Mar 2026
A Belgian court on Tuesday ordered 93-year-old former diplomat Etienne Davignon to stand trial for his role in the 1961 assassination of Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) first elected prime minister Patrice Lumumba.
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‘Africa Will Write Its Own History.’ Who Was Patrice Lumumba?

New York Times 19 Mar 2026
Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ordered a retired Belgian diplomat stand trial for his 1961 assassination ... .
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Lumumba, Owens seek dismissal of bribery charges while Banks seeks separate trial

The Enterprise-Tocsin 19 Mar 2026
The dismal motion comes only weeks after Lumumba’s legal team filed a different motion for dismissal ... Lumumba’s attorneys are also seeking documentation regarding an FBI agent’s grand jury testimony.
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Belgian court clears way for trial over 1961 killing of Congo PM Lumumba

Business Ghana 19 Mar 2026
A Belgian court has ruled that a former diplomat can stand trial in connection with the killing in 1961 of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister ... Lumumba was appointed prime minister after Congo gained independence in June 1960.
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