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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The remarks recently made by the spokesperson of the Democratic Republic of Congo's army shocked many observers around the world.Yet, for those familiar with the country's political culture and 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 ...

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 the country that ...

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 ...

UNTIL recently Belgium’s colonial record in the Congo was favorably regarded by large areas of international opinion. This was partly due to ignorance and to the deliberate smoke-screen policy of the ...