Belgium’s current foreign policy has taken “a unilateral diplomatic choice, pro-Congo, not for the Congolese people, but for the Congolese leaders in power today in Kinshasa and a few other ...

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 ...

Belgium-based Congolese artist Jean Precy Numbi ... successive repairs in Lingala – the most widely spoken language in Kinshasa, says Samba. He points to that fact that many vehicles that ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Uganda and Burundi, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prévot concluded his tour of the Great Lakes region in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Monday ...

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 ...

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.

Belgium's Court of Appeals on Monday ordered the government to pay compensation to five Congolese women who were forcibly separated from their mothers during colonial rule. The court ruled that ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP ... Day holiday marking the day in 1960 when the country became independent from Belgium. Lumumba is widely hailed as the nationalist activist who helped to end colonial ...

For the past several years she has been fascinated by the popular dance styles in the nightclubs of Kinshasa, a melting pot of diverse and complex identities that are far from her own Western ...