Under red, blue, green and yellow lights at a club in Léopoldville’s sprawling native quarter, women in grass skirts and men with chalked bodies stomped to the hard rap of a hollow-log drum. Then ...

BRUSSELS/DAKAR (Reuters) - 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 ...

Along that riverbank a thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files. . . . Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! Boom, steal the pigmies. . . . Boom, kill the white ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its ...

The women were taken from their families in the 1950s. It was not until 2017 that Monique Bitu Bingi felt strong enough to tell the full story of what happened during her childhood in the ...

STORY: Belgium's King Philippe returned a traditional mask to Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday (June 8). It was, he said, a symbolic gesture - in a country where many remain angry at ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi vowed to root out the corruption and impunity that has hindered the country since its independence from Belgium as the nation marked its ...

Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its bloody past and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities on ...