A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly removed from their ...

During World War II the Congo even paid the bills for the Belgian government in exile. While Britain and France poured large sums into overseas territories, the Congo colony’s $960 million ten ...

Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former ...

The current protests are not the first time Belgium's ugly history in Congo has been contested in the streets. In 2019, the cities of Kortrijk and Dendermonde renamed their Leopold II streets ...

Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial history The horrific consequences ... "He never went to [DR Congo] himself," the prince said in an interview. "I do not see how he could have made people ...

Vast fortunes have been made in Congo throughout history but the money has often ... was where some of the worst atrocities were committed by Belgian King Leopold’s colonial regime a little ...

Welcome to Deadline's International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we're talking to famed ...

Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s ...