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Three envoys went to Congo with a quid pro quo offer from Washington. The venture ended with them fleeing the country two ...

The Congo Free State was unique among colonies in that it was the private property of the Belgian king. His memory is forever stained by the depredations committed by companies that made him a ...

The Congo Free State later became Belgian Congo; upon gaining flag independence, it was named Congo Léopoldville, then Congo Kinshasa, then Zaire, and now, thanks to Laurent Kabila, the ...

The so-called Congo Free State was anything but. It was, in fact, a giant forced labor camp, the personal possession of Leopold II, king of Belgium. For nearly 30 years, ...

The madness of greed and violence that engulfed Leopold’s Congo Free State was immortalized by Joseph Conrad in his novel “Heart of Darkness,” which he began writing in 1898 after working as ...

The so-called Congo Free State (État indépendant du Congo) existed as a private colony of King Leopold II (1835-1909) until the Belgian government took over in 1908. Belgian rule killed an ...

BRUSSELS — The Royal Museum for Central Africa opened here in 1897 to celebrate Belgium’s new colonial triumph — the creation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II. His reign over the ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the Congo Free State was one of the hardest places to be a human. For several decades, Belgian soldiers and business owners brutalized thousands of Congolese locals.

If the whole Congo Free State is in slavery, as appears to be the case if Mr. MOREL'S account is true, a new agreement by the Powers is desirable, and one that shall not only abate the cruel ...