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In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961

17 January 2021 - by Eric Toussaint

On 17 January 2021, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961). After a resounding victory in the first real elections in which the Congolese participated, Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister of (...)
Regrets, Apologies and Repair for Belgium’s Colonial Harms

3 December 2020 - by Valerie Arnould

Former colonial countries appear increasingly willing to engage in processes akin to transitional justice in order to confront the legacies of their colonial past. In this blog post, Valerie Arnould discusses recent initiatives in Belgium meant (...)
Development banks must be held accountable for their disastrous oil palm plantation investments in the Congo

25 September 2020 - by GRAIN

The remains of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba are finally on their way back home from Belgium. But this brings no closure to the anti-colonial struggle he led and was ultimately killed for. Foreign powers continue to loot the (...)
Reply to the letter by Philippe, King of the Belgians, about Belgium’s responsibility in the exploitation of the Congolese people

8 July 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

On 30 June 2020, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the former Belgian Congo’s independence, the news went viral over the planet: Philippe, King of the Belgians, had conveyed regrets for the colonial past, and particularly for the time (...)
Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo. A duty to remember

17 June 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations against racism in general, and racism against black people in particular, becoming an international phenomenon more and more people are seeking to know the truth about the dark past of the colonial (...)
Why They Killed Patrice Lumumba

24 January 2020 - by Saíd Husaini, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

Patrice Lumumba was a radical leader of the Congolese independence movement who resisted Belgian colonialism and corporate interests. That’s why he was assassinated in a US-backed coup 59 years ago today. Born in 1925, Patrice Émery Lumumba was (...)
How Kabila and the mining giants went from best friends to adversaries

6 November 2018 - by Claude Kabemba, Pascal Kambale

A new mining code has created a rift between mining multinationals and government. For much of this year, two of the most powerful forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been engaged in a tense standoff. President Joseph Kabila, (...)
Patrice Lumumba in Brussels : a square against forgetting

27 June 2018 - by Jérôme Duval, Robin Delobel

For more than 10 years associations had been demanding that a public square be named after the assassinated former Congo Prime Minister in Belgium’s capital, Brussels. On 23 April Brussels’ City Council decided by a unanimous vote that a public (...)
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)

18 January 2017 - by Sean Jacobs

56 years ago today, Congolese prime minister and anticolonial leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of a newly independent Congo for only seven months between 1960 and 1961 before he was murdered, (...)
Part 2 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”

The First Testing Grounds for the CADTM’s Methods to Counter Illegitimate Debt: the examples of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo

11 August 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Benjamin Lemoine

Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt (...)
Africa’s wealth is being devoured by tyrants and vultures

31 July 2012 - by Nick Dearden

Citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo should be living in one of the world’s richest countries. Plunder and corruption condemns them to poverty ’Repayment’ of loans made to the corrupt Mobuto Sese Seko has proved an important means of (...)
FG Hemisphere vulture fund’s latest victory against the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). What is Belgium doing?

2 January 2011 - by Renaud Vivien

Vulture funds continue to wreak havoc in the countries of the South. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has to pay the price by losing a new lawsuit against the FG Hemisphere Hedge Fund before a court in Jersey. Unfortunately, this new wound was (...)
The democratic republic of the Congo (DR Congo) after reaching the completion point

10 November 2010 - by Victor Nzuzi

The debt in the RD Congo has recently been reduced, from 13,704 to 2,931 billion US dollars, as a consequence of the RD Congo reaching the completion point at the conclusion of the HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) initiative on 1 July (...)
Congo: One Hundred Years of Colonialism, Dictatorship and War (1908 - 2008)

[Friends of the Congo/->http://www.friendsofthecongo.org Saturday, November 15, 2008 marked the 100-year anniversary of the removal of the Congo from King Leopold II of Belgium as his own personal property. Global outrage of the King’s brutal (...)
Millions of acres of African rainforest threatened as Congolese government moves to ‘legalise’ felling for timber

30 September 2008 - by Greenpeace

Greenpeace International – Rainforest Foundation – Global Witness Press Release For Immediate Use 24 September 2008 A group of international NGO’s have today warned that millions of acres of rainforest could be at risk as the government (...)
6^th International Seminar on Debt and Law

Auditing the debt Case studies of 4 countries : Ecuador, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, the Philippines Friday October 19 and Saturday October 20 from 9.30am to 5.30pm Venue : Congress room of the Belgian Senate, 21 rue de Louvain (...)
DRC: a demonstration of plunder and submission

11 July 2007 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a textbook case for those who wish to understand complex notions like the pillage of a country’s wealth, the intolerable loss of a State’s sovereignty, or the concept of odious debt. The manner in which (...)