Six biracial women are suing the Belgian government for crimes against humanity in a landmark case after they were snatched from the families decades ago.

Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected prime minister of the Congo, and was assassinated in a Belgian-supported coup. Can the return of his remains help them reconcile over colonialism?

Belgium's King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to apologise for decades of brutal rule.

Belated exposures of “Belgian Atrocities” in the Congo—true tales of Blackamoors whose hands were hacked off when they failed to bring in sufficient rubber or ivory—were utilized by the ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba will be laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday. The interment in a specially-built mausoleum ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Belgium’s King Philippe expressed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s abuses in its former colony Congo, telling lawmakers Wednesday on his first official trip to ...

Belgium's brutal colonialism: Riches that came from Congolese blood Jean-Claude Ilunga lives in Belgium but is Congolese by birth and says it is time for the former rulers to apologise to Congo.

To the shocked Belgians, it seemed a bitter reward for their promise of freedom next June 30 to the rich Congo colony.No sooner had the painful independence pact been completed than the Congo's ...

Belgium, it seems, does not. Meanwhile, internal criticism of Tshisekedi's government grows louder. Belgian media, perhaps unintentionally, revealed the farcical state of governance in the DRC.

Rwanda has accused Belgium of repeatedly undermining Rwanda over the M23 offensive in Congo.Belgium and Rwanda are expelling each other's diplomats in tit-for-tat moves as part of an escalating ...