A Congolese former prime minister was convicted of embezzling millions from a huge failed agriculture venture, in one of the highest-profile corruption cases brought under President Felix Tshisekedi ...

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 ...

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 ...

A subsidiary of the company has the monopoly on all transport of cargo to and from the Congo Free State, as it is called, the huge territory in central Africa that is the world's only colony claimed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Belgian ... young man who is King of the Belgians and, as such, the sovereign lord of 14 million Congolese. It will be his first state visit to his African Empire. The Congo is King ...