Following the brutal reign of King Leopold II in what was then considered his private property, the Congo became a Belgian colony in 1908. Three years later, the colonial authorities granted ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country whose name has ... It was the private fiefdom of the Belgian King, Leopold II that was then handed over to the Belgian government and those ...

On the political front, King Leopold II exploited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1885 as his private property, and after his death, he bequeathed it to the Kingdom of Belgium.