An official burial ceremony is taking place on Thursday for the tooth of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital Kinshasa. The relic is all that remains of the African country’s first prime minister, who was murdered in 1961 by separatist rebels in collusion with Belgian mercenaries. His body was dissolved in acid […]
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Côte d’Ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo gains ‘semi-freedom’, revives his old party from Brussels
From Brussels, former president Laurent Gbagbo has taken taken up the reins of the Front Populaire Ivorien (FPI) again and dreams of the day when he can finally return home to Côte d’Ivoire. There are no hard feelings, simply a real desire for revenge. Laurent Gbagbo doesn’t go out much, but this was different: it […]