Battling the Rwanda-backed M23 forces in the east Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi was determined to field a challenger and in February his government nominated Juliana Amato Lumumba a former culture minister and daughter of murdered independence leader Patrice Lumumba...

The Brussels Court of First Instance's referral of Count Étienne Davignon a former European Commissioner for trial on charges relating to the assassination of Congo-Kinshasa's first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was welcomed by Lumumba's family and rights advocates as step towards justice for Belgium's colonial-era crimes (Dispatches 16/3/26 Brussels opens trial of apparatchik linked to Lumumba's murder)...

The election of the Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie in Paris will also be a pitched battle between Kinshasa and Kigali after Tshisekedi nominated Juliana Lumumba daughter of Congo-K's first elected Prime Minister and continental liberation hero Patrice Lumumba to challenge Rwanda's former Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo...

The move has not been warmly received in Kinshasa where Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo the Archbishop of Kinshasa has pointed to a ‘dark spot' in Baudouin's past specifically his knowledge of and alleged involvement in the assassination of Congo-Kinshasa's first elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba (AC Vol 38 No 19 Kabila takes on the UN)...

Yet Jean-Jacques Lumumba the former head of commitments at the Congolese unit of the central African bank the Banque gabonaise et française internationale and great-nephew of Congo-Kinshasa's first President Patrice Lumumba told Bloomberg News that CENI paid over US$2...

Doubts may abound but none were visible in Addis Ababa as South African President Jacob Zuma and his ex-wife and African Union Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma invoked the spirit of the Father of the Congolese nation Patrice Lumumba...

He is only the third Congolese – after the late Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Laurent-Désiré Kabila – to receive that honour...

Recent examples of inflammatory rumours seen by Africa Confidential include doctored photos purporting to show unarmed civilians shot dead by UN troops and tracts portraying Gbagbo as the inheritor of the legacies of Patrice Lumumba Thomas Sankara and Kwame Nkrumah...