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

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 ...

Opinion - 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 ...

Titled Explaining African Colonialism, it featured the hosts, Rudyard Lynch and Austin Padgett, speaking about the time when King Leopold II occupied the Congo. According to the official website ...

while the other symbols reference the colonial links to Belgium’s royal greenhouse and art nouveau style of architecture. King Leopold II ruled Congo as an absolute monarch, pillaging it of ...

King Leopold II, who died in 1909, is remembered for his brutal colonization of Congo. However, after World War I, statues of him were erected to bolster national pride, whitewashing the ...

Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo was ruled by Belgium from 1908 to 1960. King Leopold II took control of Congo 1885 and established a notoriously violent and cruel regime that ended in the ...

By some estimates, killings, famine and disease killed up to 10 million Congolese during just the first 23 years of Belgium's rule from 1885 to 1960, when King Leopold II ruled the Congo Free ...

De Croo hailed the six-day trip as a “historic moment.” Belgium’s King Leopold II took power of Congo in 1885, when European leaders carved up Africa into imperial holdings. The king was ...