Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over ...

Not everybody was as lucky. Jacques Bollaerts, 25, a former Belgian paratrooper, tried to shield one of the women as they ran. “Faster, Odette, I’m covering you,” he cried just before he ...

Rwanda has accused Belgium of repeatedly undermining Rwanda over the M23 offensive in Congo.Belgium and Rwanda are expelling ...

The Congo became independent on June 30 ... acts against European residents and their property. On July 11, Belgian paratroopers arrived to protect Belgian civilians and touched off a widespread ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

Belgium and Rwanda announced the expulsion of each other's diplomats, as relations deteriorated over allegations about their ...

For the orderly Belgians, the Congo conference in Brussels had been ... full assurance that a Congolese government would guarantee Belgian property, shares in colonial corporations have dropped ...

Rwanda has accused Belgium of repeatedly undermining Rwanda over the M23 offensive in Congo. Rwanda announced on Monday that it had severed diplomatic ties with Belgium, giving Belgian diplomats ...