The ongoing crisis in DR Congo has drawn international attention, with various stakeholders weighing in on its causes and potential resolutions. Former Belgian Senator Alain Destexhe, a long-time ...

In receiving the "Romanian mercenaries," the RDF asserted that they were "fighting alongside the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC ... France, Belgium, and the U.S ...

But Tshombe still had his own mercenaries ... When Tshombe took Katanga out of the Congo, the only two Western nations favorable to him were Belgium and France. Those two countries met with ...

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over ...

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 ...

In this conversation, he delves into Belgium's shifting relations with Rwanda, the involvement of European mercenaries in DR Congo, and the impact of international interventions. What are your ...