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.

For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs ...

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

Protesters in the Congo attacked the historically significant ... January 28. Under King Leopold II, Belgium brutalised the country with unrestrained evil between 1885 and 1908, using extreme ...

For example, consider the Black Holocaust, from the year 1885-1909, perpetuated by King Leopold II of Belgium. He declared himself to be the sole proprietor of the African Congo which was a land ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The transformation of a police barracks by EVR Architecten, BC Architects & Studies and Callebaut Architecten in Brussels is ...

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