Protesters in the Congo attacked the historically significant Belgian Embassy amid anger at foreign interference in the ...

that was once the private property of King Leopold II. They kept the 12.8 ... fabled 14th century kingdom of the Congo, combining territories now French, Belgian and Portuguese.

The current conflict in the DRC is not just a crisis of governance or ethnic tensions but a direct continuation of a colonial ...

Last Wednesday (May 18th) saw another repeat of the BBC documentary White King, Red Rubber, Black Death, on the Belgian TV channel Canvas.

War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has exploded into global headlines once again after Rwanda-backed rebels captured ...

The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...

Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium, to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II in the seaside ... In fact, he ruled the Congo Free State as an absolute ...

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...