From a ragtag rebel force, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has transformed over four decades, professionalising its ranks, expanding its capabilities, and playing a pivotal role in national ...

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By refusing to let go of a tree for three days, one woman forced an entire country to confront the cost of environmental neglect.

On January 20, a court in Brussels, Belgium, convened a procedural hearing in the long-running case concerning the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic ...

Belgian ex-diplomat Etienne Davignon is defending himself in Brussels over his alleged role in the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba — a landmark case in Belgium's reckoning with its ...

Sixty-four years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba is once again in the public imagination - his pan-African legacy as alive as ever. The name of the Congolese revolutionary has been on the ...

A Belgian court will hold a hearing Tuesday on whether a former senior diplomat should go on trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. The family of the independence icon has ...

The African Cup of Nations (Afcon) ended on Sunday with chaotic scenes on and off the pitch and a dramatic extra-time victory for Senegal. But the most enduring image of the tournament may be a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congolese independence hero Patrice Emery Lumumba shot to fame on June 30, 1960 with a blistering independence speech against ...