Remains of independence hero Patrice Lumumba returned to Congo

A photo of the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, at ceremony on 21 June 2022, in Brussels, where his last known remains were symbolically handed over to his children. The remains are now back in DRC, embarking on a tour of the country, before being laid to rest in the capital, Kinshasa. © Johanna Geron/Reuters

The remains of the first post-independence Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba arrived Wednesday in the Democratic Republic Congo, more than six decades after his assassination. The remains will go on tour around the country, before being laid to rest in the capital, Kinshasa, next week.

A plane transporting a coffin containing the last remains - a gold-crowned tooth - landed in Kinshasa on Wednesday, in transit to the central province of Sankuru, where Lumumba was born, in the village of Onalua, in 1925