He received financial support from the Belgian government, which was used in the development of different projects, and the residents of Congo were forced to work as labor for items like rubber ...

Bloomberg's Big Take podcast looks at an investigation into allegations of sexual coercion at plantations run by Socfin, a rubber company supplying top tiremakers.

Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium ... In fact, he ruled the Congo Free State as an absolute monarch, pillaging it of lucrative rubber and minerals during a genocide ...

“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

King Leopold's horrific regime is exposed.

Munene gave a historical account of the Congo crisis, tracing it to the Berlin Conference of 1884, and argued that the ...

Congo was at the nexus of that change as the possessor of perhaps the richest store of natural resources of any country on the planet. Belgium had exploited its colony for natural rubber (in the ...

Massad Boulos, US President Donald Trump’s advisor on Africa and the Middle East, was in Africa to meet Presidents Felix ...

Belgium has denied claims that it has sent troops to engage rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid a diplomatic spat between Belgium and Rwanda. News reports and social ...

Belgium is perhaps better known for having colonised the Congo. However, it also colonised present-day Rwanda and neighbouring Burundi. Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony ...

Boat accidents are common in the central African country, where late-night travels and overcrowded vessels are often ...