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.

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 ...

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 eastern city of Goma. But where did this long cycle of violence in the ...

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 ...

Congo, where the city is located, is thought to be one of the world's most linguistically diverse nations, with more than 200 ...

When Belgium’s King Leopold II declared the Congo his personal property in the late 19th century, he unleashed one of history’s most brutal exploitation schemes. Under the guise of ...

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 ...