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

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

He first took power when the Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960. Sponsor Message Months later, however, Lumumba was assassinated after a Belgian-supported coup. He was tortured and ...

the mortal remains of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister Patrice Lumumba were handed over to his children during an official ceremony in Belgium. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys) ...

King Philippe of Belgium expressed his “deepest regrets” for abuses committed during the country’s colonization of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, but he did not offer a ...

BRUSSELS/DAKAR, June 8 (Reuters) - Belgium's King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to apologise for ...

By Ruth Maclean and Elian Peltier DAKAR, Senegal — The king of Belgium on Wednesday handed over a large wooden mask to the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of thousands of ...

King on first visit since taking throne Again stops short of apologising for colonial atrocities Congo president says needs to look to the future KINSHASA, June 8 (Reuters) - Belgium's King ...

Belgium's King Philippe, First Lady of the DRC Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi arrive at the National Museum of the Democratic ...

Like thousands of other mixed-race children born under colonial rule in Belgian Congo, the five girls, the children of African mothers and European fathers, were taken from their homes by the ...

BRUSSELS — Belgium's King Philippe on Tuesday expressed regret for his nation's — and his ancestor's — brutal colonization of Congo, a major acknowledgment of history in a country that has ...

In recent weeks the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaire, and before that the Belgian Congo, has been in the news: A brutal civil war, an horrendous AIDS epidemic, the ...