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

Congo has been wracked by more than a century of violent colonization and imperialism resulting in millions of deaths—and ...

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

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 current conflict in the DRC is not just a crisis of governance or ethnic tensions but a direct continuation of a colonial ...

The conflict's roots became even more entangled when the Belgian government took over administration of Congo in 1908 from King Leopold II, who had run the territory as his personal fiefdom since 1885 ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

2008 marked the 100-year anniversary of the removal of the Congo from King Leopold II of Belgium as his own personal property. Global outrage of the King’s brutal (...) Millions of acres of African ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is trapped in an unrelenting cycle of conflict, displacement, and humanitarian suffering ...