Algeria’s Senate has demanded revisions to a landmark law declaring France’s 1830–1962 colonization a crime, creating legislative discord just weeks after the lower house unanimously passed the bill. Legislative Disagreement On December 24, Algeria’s lower house voted to classify colonization as a crime with “legal responsibility,” while also demanding an…
The family of Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader assassinated in 1961, has expressed hope for justice as a Belgian court evaluates whether to prosecute the sole surviving suspect in the decades-old case. Speaking outside a Brussels court on Tuesday ahead of a closed-door hearing, Yema Lumumba, 33, granddaughter of…
