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

A Belgian court ordered its government to pay reparations to a group of women over forced separations during colonization.

A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly removed from their ...

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

The Brussels Court of Appeal on Monday found the Belgian state guilty of “crimes against humanity” for kidnapping five mixed-race women when they were children in Congo under colonial rule.

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

Shortly after independence, the country was hit by a secessionist crisis as the mineral-rich ... process towards reconciliation between Belgium and DR Congo over the colonial era and Lumumba's ...

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 ...

According to the AP, the deaths were recorded between November 10 and November 25 in the DRC’s Panzi health zone of Kwango ...

First, there is the fact that, as a Belgian, Grimonprez has the ... converges with the true story of the 1960-1 crisis. The CIA was hyperactively involved across the strategically important and ...

Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of Congo and an icon of the nation’s independence, was assassinated in 1961 and his body dissolved in acid by separatists and Belgian police officers.