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January 16, 2029

Mokolo ya Lumumba leads today's complete edition for DR Congo.

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Mokolo ya Lumumba

The day Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in 1961. The founding father of Congolese independence, murdered within months of taking office. Every Congolese person knows the name, the face, the betrayal. Lumumba is not just history, he is the wound that never fully healed.