King on first visit since taking throne Again stops short of apologising for colonial atrocities Congo president says needs to look to the future KINSHASA, June 8 (Reuters) - Belgium's King ...

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 ...

They pillaged all our resources, and today you invite the Belgian king again?” said Junior Bombi, a salesman in Kinshasa’s central market. Antoine Roger Lokongo, a professor at the University ...

Rwanda’s Consul in Antwerp, Gunther Vanpraet, has blamed the Belgian government’s one-sided diplomatic position on the DR Congo security crisis, calling it both “disrespectful” to Rwanda and a threat ...

The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba will be laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday ... became independent from Belgium. Lumumba is widely hailed as ...

Prévot’s diplomatic safari On April 28, 2025, Belgian Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot met with DRC President Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa as part of a grand regional ...

The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around Congo, with the tooth taken around the vast country so people could pay their respects.

Rwanda's foreign affairs ministry suspended all diplomatic relations with Belgium in March 2025. Soon afterwards, Belgium expelled Rwandan diplomats. This came weeks after Belgium had suspended ...

KINSHASA, Jan 28 (Reuters ... Missions belonging to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and the United Nations were all assaulted, European diplomats ...

But it would amount to an acknowledgment that Tshisekedi’s pursuit of a military solution has “failed”, said Congolese analyst Bob Kabamba of the University of Liege in Belgium. “Kinshasa ...