There's information circulating on social media about the presence of Belgian soldiers, and even tanks (sic!), in the Congo ...

Belgium and Rwanda announced the expulsion of each other's diplomats, as relations deteriorated over allegations about their ...

Rwanda’s government has blamed Belgium’s colonial rule for the ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide.

The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ABAKO, Association des Bakongo and the Lulua-Freres, emerged in the 1950's. But it was the attitude of ...

In Europe, the perception is that there is turmoil and war everywhere, but in reality ... Another absurd thing happening in Europe is the constant comparison between the conflict in the DR Congo and ...

Even Americans shaped by segregation-era race values, historian Susan Williams records, were shocked by the brutality of Belgian ... in Congo Led by the warlord and accused war criminal Sultani ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which brought an end to the world war, officially transferred ... interest for the Belgian colonial authorities compared to neighbouring Congo, Brussels nevertheless ...

It was the private fiefdom of the Belgian King, Leopold II that was then ... This led to the First Congo War in 1996 where several African nations, including Rwanda, banded together to overthrow ...