For a prosperous half-century, tiny Belgium successfully ruled the vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with ...

Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels, ...

Belgium’s King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, racism and acts of violence during his country’s colonization of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but ...

The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

For the first time in Belgium’s history, a reigning king has expressed regret for the violence carried out by the nation during its rule in the Congo.

Belgium's King Philippe expressed deep regret on Tuesday for the "suffering and humiliation" inflicted on the Democratic Republic of Congo during its 75 years under Belgian rule.

In this June 230, 2020, file photo, the removal of a King Leopold statue takes place in Gent, Belgium, on the day of the 60th anniversary of the independence of Congo. Photonews via Getty Images, FILE ...

Philippe offered a traditional mask of the Suku people to Congo’s national museum as an “indefinite loan.” It has been held for decades by Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa.