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Offbeat · Kinshasa

Vandals Target Lumumba Mausoleum, Fate of Tooth Relic Uncertain

56% Center coverage: 18 sources

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized. It is not immediately clear whether Lumumba’s remains — a single gold-capped tooth — were damaged or stolen. A mausoleum curator told the national press agency that the glass doors had been smashed Monday and the coffin containing the tooth had been broken. The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been cel…See the Story

Kinshasa · Kinshasa

Congolese police arrest 6 suspects over break-in into mausoleum of late independence hero Lumumba

80% Center coverage: 5 sources

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. During the break-in on Monday, a case containing a single gold-capped tooth — the only part of the former leader that remained after his assassination — was broken by the vandals, according to authorities. It wasn’t immedi…See the Story

Africa · Kinshasa

Congo accuses rebel group of 'ethnic cleansing' in country's east

Coverage: 4 sources

Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government has accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group of “ethnic cleansing” in the central African nation’s east. The minister of the interior, Jacquemain Shabani, on Tuesday denounced the “massive arrival of foreign populations” in the territories of Rutshuru and Masisi in the North Kivu province. Shabani says locals were “expelled by violence,” and that this “constitutes ethnic cleansing.” Mor…See the Story

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