Congo-Kinshasa: Lumumba's Remains Return Home to Find Rest At Last

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Congo-Kinshasa: Lumumba's Remains Return Home to Find Rest At Last

[New Frame] Sixty years after independent Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was murdered and dissolved in acid, his teeth, kept as a trophy in Belgium, will be returned to Africa.

Source: allAfrica.com

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