In 1879-1880, as Henry Morton Stanley was secretly mapping the Congo River and procuring trade treaties from local leaders, ...

the passage of the Congo treaty by the Chamber means that the annexation of the State to Belgium is now practically assured and the personal rule of King Leopold in Africa is drawing to a close ...

The sudden appearance of the Belgian claims in the struggle to prevent ... in any way due to the fact that King Leopold, as reported, is acting in the interest of British bankers who desire ...

Adam Hochschild presents a horrific picture of the African Congo under the rule of of Belgian King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. This book has served to solidify in the ...

HISTORY: Personal fiefdom of Belgian King Leopold II from 1885 to 1908, when it became the colony of Belgian Congo. Civil war broke out almost immediately after independence in 1960. The country has ...

Internationally, Belgium is well-known for the atrocities its then-King Leopold II and later the State committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under colonial rule. Strikingly, many ...

Faced with this persistent persecution, Rwanda made the only rational choice: it cut Belgium off. The decision to sever diplomatic ties with the Kingdom was not an act of aggression; it was an act of ...

Contemporary misfortunes can be traced to brutal colonial exploitation by King Leopold II of Belgium, as well as the corrupt regime of Mobutu Sese Seko and subsequent Congo wars. The March 23 Movement ...

Column - U.S. President Donald Trump manages to drop the white savior mentality often portrayed by his predecessors. When DR Congo said "take my minerals and crush Rwanda," he showed the European ...

Faced with this persistent persecution, Rwanda made the only rational choice: it cut Belgium off. The decision to sever diplomatic ties with the Kingdom was not an act of aggression; it was an act of ...