On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during ...

A Brussels appeals court has ruled that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race ...

In its ruling Monday, the Brussels Court of Appeal held the Belgian State responsible for the abduction and systematic racial ...

In a landmark ruling, Belgium's court of appeals on Monday said that five women, born in Belgian-ruled Congo and now in their ...

In a landmark case, a court ruled that the women, now in their 70s and 80s, who were taken from their parents in Belgian ...

During World War II the Congo even paid the bills for the Belgian government in exile. While Britain and France poured large sums into overseas territories, the Congo colony’s $960 million ten ...

Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels ...

King Philippe made the remarks in a letter to President Félix Tshisekedi of DR Congo Belgium's King Philippe has expressed his "deepest regrets" to the Democratic Republic of Congo for his ...

It's not clear who was responsible for the act of vandalism, Congo's ministry of culture said in a statement Tuesday. The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

Belgium's King Philippe has decried the racism meted out in the Democratic Republic of Congo under the colonial rule of his ancestors. "This regime was one of unequal relations, unjustifiable in ...