Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over their role in invading eastern Congo and plundering its mineral wealth.

Belgium, which has voiced concern about Rwanda's support for rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has ...

In a statement released Monday, Rwanda's foreign ministry said, "The Government of Rwanda today notified the Government of Belgium of its ... Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said it will ...

Rwanda has accused Belgium of repeatedly undermining Rwanda over the M23 offensive in Congo. Rwanda announced on Monday that it had severed diplomatic ties with Belgium, giving Belgian diplomats ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group swept through the mineral-rich east of the DRC earlier this year, taking two major cities, ...

A well known example of these horrors is when King Leopold II transformed the so-called 'free state' of Congo into ... Europe's appetite for rubber was surging. By 1909, Belgian colonial ...