A Belgian paratrooper hands a bottle of beer to Congolese troops as both groups patrol Boulevard Albert in Leopoldville, ...

Patrice Lumumba, left, leader of the Congolese National Party (MNC) and Prime Minister-Designate of the Belgian Congo, ...

Ultimately, very few marriages were recorded, but the number of children born of these relationships increased significantly over time, from several thousand in the 1930s to over 10,000 in the 1950s ...

Virunga is Africa’s first national park, created by Belgian royal decree in 1925. Named for the mountains that straddle the ...

In the Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prosperous Negro shopkeepers climbed up wooden ladders and draped the Congolese flag (a golden star on a blue ...

“We cannot allow it to be said that we gave the Congo its independence in a state of chaos,” Premier Gaston Eyskens told Parliament. Secretly, he pulled a large part of Belgium’s Liberation ...

Ongoing differences between Rwanda and the DRC are now playing out in regional and international organisations.

In a speech held in Brussels on Thursday, the Federal Prime Minister Bart De Wever (Flemish nationalist) laid out his ...

In today’s major global conflicts – in Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan – the UN’s role has largely been in the area of a ...

Born in the Katanga Province of the Belgian Congo, Mudimbe challenged others to explore African histories and perspectives through an intrinsically African lens instead of relying on colonial-era ...

Kigali denies backing the M23 rebels, who have seized territory in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, but that hasn’t stopped the US, UK, and Belgium from imposing penalties earlier this ...