Lumumba in a sentence

Belgium vehemently opposed Lumumba’s leftist views and had grave concerns about the status of their financial interests should Lumumba’s MNC gain power.

In 2002 Belgium officially apologised for its role in the elimination of Lumumba; the CIA of the United States has long been suspected of complicity, as they suspected Lumumba's politics were too far left.

Lumumba and the MNC won this election and the right to form a government, with the announcement on 23 June 1960 of 34-year-old Lumumba as Congo's first prime minister and Joseph Kasa-Vubu as its president.

According to Lumumba, Davis’ departure isn’t connected to the indictment.

A postmortem examination seen by Human Rights Watch revealed that Lumumba was sexually assaulted, hit on the head with a blunt object, and stabbed in the chest, face, neck, and eyes.

As another aspect of the Jackson-Kush Plan, Lumumba promoted the development of worker-owned cooperatives as a vehicle to improve the lives of working and poor Black people in Jackson and throughout the state of Mississippi.

Even after gaining its freedom, Belgium and the west successfully conspired to assassinate its leader Patrice Lumumba, replace him with a western-leaning dictator and control its cobalt mines.

Lumumba has been unsparing in his condemnation of the exploitation of continent’s vast resources by foreign entities in cahoots with the political elites.

Lumumba would initially run for Jackson’s City Council in Ward 2 in 2009 as part of the plan.

The killing of Lumumba, Sankara, all those guys--we have to make sure that doesn't happen again.

During police questioning, Knox implicated Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba, who then spent almost two weeks behind bars before being released without charge.

Jackson has made national headlines in recent years for its crumbling infrastructure, which Lumumba largely inherited when he took office in 2017 and has left residents sometimes without water at all — at their faucets.

Ms Knox, now 36, appeared in the Florence court on Wednesday when she was reconvicted of slandering bar owner Patrick Lumumba, who was held for two weeks on suspicion of murder before police released him with an iron-clad alibi.

One of the most notorious cases was the U.S.-Belgian-led assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, whose death destabilized the resource-rich country for generations,” she detailed in her article.

The European Court of Human Rights in 2019 ordered Italy to pay Knox damages for failing to provide a lawyer or an independent interpreter during the extended night of questioning during which she signed the two statements fingering Mr Lumumba.

This was the undoing of such patriotic leaders like Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo and Col. Ghadaffi of Libya.

Director of the Kenya Law School and front line social critics, Prof. Patrick Lumumba on Wednesday told Nigerian lawmakers to make efforts to be true representatives of the people and not be horrible members.

In 2016, a collective of activists who use elections as a tool for social change, including Rukia Lumumba and Kayla Reed, came together to look very carefully at the political landscape.

In the 1980s, while a student at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Abbas wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Holocaust.

Lumumba had clearly been a threat to the interests of the former colonial elite and had stood in the way of a new aspirant black elite eager to become the privileged gatekeepers to Congolese wealth.