Belgium controlled the central African country from the 19th Century until it won its independence in 1960. Millions of ... renaming it the Belgian Congo. Colonisers continued to use Africans ...

BRUSSELS, March 10. -- The renewed campaign lately begun in England against the Congo Free State is the topic of the day here. The matter is a vital one, for it is generally believed, both in ...

When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and 1960, thousands of mixed-race children were abducted from their ...

The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped ... leaders said elections for independence could go ahead in May 1960. This in itself caused confusion and a rush to form parties.

King Philippe said the object was on "indefinite loan" to DR Congo. It is currently not legally possible for Belgium to donate objects from a federal collection, according to Belgian news site ...

particularly its rule over Congo, considered one of the harshest in Africa. Between 1885 and 1908, King Leopold II governed the country as his personal property, during which millions of Congolese ...

Hirsch said that her clients were taken to a religious congregation in Katende, in Congo’s Kasai province. When the country became independent in 1960, Belgian authorities evacuated the Belgian ...

The women at the centre of the legal case said they were taken away from their families, brought up in a convent, mistreated and then abandoned when the Belgian Congo gained independence in 1960.