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Patrice Lumumba

his grandson asks for openness

As soon as the schedule was announced, Patrice Emery Lumumba's remains were postponed indefinitely. The reason from the authorities is the health crisis. Jean-Jacques Lumumba, the grandson of the father of Congolese independence, calls for transparency in the cost of these ceremonies. Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi was…

the great uncertainty in Belgium over the recovery

A few days before the deadline, neither Brussels nor Kinshasa can provide further information on the terms of this refund. In this context, some twenty personalities who are very involved in this issue, such as the historian Elikia M'Bokolo, the filmmaker Raoul Peck or even the researcher Ludo de Witte, have just published a column entitled "La Belgique va-t-elle se bli get rid of Lumumbas remains in silence and shame? " All these doubts about the dates, as we see, show that it was not prepared in…