A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

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

Reason: Leopold, King of the Belgians, is a German prisoner of war. Nevertheless, the Governor General made it clear that the Congo would “continue the closest collaboration with Great Britain ...

The king’s severed head is a nod to ... power symbol but also one of most chilling aspects of Leopold’s vicious plunder of the Congo. Belgian colonialists infamously cut off the hands of ...

that was once the private property of King Leopold II ... the fabled 14th century kingdom of the Congo, combining territories now French, Belgian and Portuguese. After his election as one of ...

The recent history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been one of civil war and corruption. It is rich in ...

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 ...