Evidence of direct Belgian government complicity in the execution of the Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba must be made public and those implicated questioned, a historian demanded yesterday.

FILE - In this July 24, 1960, file photo, Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba waves as he sits in car for the drive from Idlewild Airport, New York after his arrival from Europe to speak to the United ...

Jean “Black Jack” Schramme was not your typical soldier of fortune. A Belgian plantation owner turned mercenary commander, Schramme rose to infamy during the Congo Crisis of the 1960s, where he led ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries surrender to UN peacekeepers M23 rebels cornered mercenaries and remnants of Congo army after capturing eastern city of Goma Mercenaries were hired to support ...