On the borders of the Congo Free State, adjoining French and British colonies, the population in LEOPOLD'S State has been reduced considerably by migration into the other colonies.

An Israeli-American businessman, a former State Department official and a decorated Green Beret pitched up in the Democratic ...

Nevertheless, over the course of the previous year, the pair had fashioned themselves into two of the least likely soldiers ...

Areas that ended up under Leopold, known as the Congo Free State, would suffer some of the worst brutalities of colonisation, with hundreds of thousands worked to death on rubber plantations, or ...

Given a free hand, he proceeded to rule the area as his private property, entirely separate from the nation of Belgium. Renaming his domain the "Congo Free State," he pillaged its valuable rubber, ...

Keith had also at his disposal three collections of crania, an extensive one of the Batatela (a tribe towards the eastern part of the Congo Free State), which was brought home by Mr. Torday ...

Tom and Dominic set out on their shocking journey into the history of the subjugation of the Congo Free State to the monstrous King Leopold of Belgium. Show more he story of King Leopold of ...

In a yellow plaster house with a red tin roof on the outskirts of Leopoldville, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, 29, bit his fingernails, answered the telephone, coped with a stream of visitors, and tried ...

Lofty names can be utterly deceptive, for the Congo has truly never been a republic nor its citizens enjoyed democratic government. It started with a most deceptive name, the Congo Free State, the ...

It can be admitted without hesitation that the commercial progress of the Congo State is all that Baron MONCHEUR represents it, and even that there has been the advance he indicates in education ...