{"id":3077,"date":"2022-05-25T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.qiraatafrican.com\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2023-06-06T07:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:07:31","slug":"new-date-set-for-return-of-patrice-lumumbas-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/3077\/new-date-set-for-return-of-patrice-lumumbas-tooth\/","title":{"rendered":"New date set for return of Patrice Lumumba’s tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new date has been set for the return of a tooth that was all that remained from the Congolese<\/a> independence hero Patrice Lumumba.<\/p>\n

 Democratic Republic of Congo officials will receive what is believed to be Mr Lumumba’s only remains – a tooth – from Belgium on 20 June in Brussels, according to the authorities.<\/p>\n

An initial plan to hand over the tooth in June last year was pushed following a wave of Covid-19 infections in the central Africa country.<\/p>\n

Mr Lumumba\u2019s children will be among the Congolese delegation to receive the tooth, the Belgian Prime minister said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Mr Lumumba led Congo to independence from Belgium in June 1960 and became the country’s first prime minister.<\/p>\n

However, he was overthrown and jailed before being killed by a firing squad in January 1961.<\/p>\n

In 2002, Belgium admitted responsibility for its part in the killing.<\/p>\n

A court in Brussels in 2020 ordered Belgian authorities to hand back the tooth to DR Congo, after it has been kept by a former colonial police officer.<\/p>\n

In his statement, Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo said the return of the tooth \u201cwill be seen as a new corner in the history\u201d of relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n

The tooth is expected to be displayed in public on 30 June during its independence day celebrations in the capital, Kinshasa.<\/p>\n

Belgium’s King Filip and Queen Mathilde are scheduled to visit the country in early June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new date has been set for the return of a tooth that was all that remained from the Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba.  Democratic Republic of Congo officials will receive what is believed to be Mr Lumumba’s only remains – a tooth – from Belgium on 20 June in Brussels, according to the authorities. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"BBC","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[72,1224],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-patrice-lumumba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}