TELLS OF ATROCITIES IN BELGIAN CONGO; Natives' Hands Cut Off, Dr. Leslie Says, to Force Them to Bring in Rubber. 17 YEARS A MISSIONARY Home for First Time with Baby Son, Who Speaks Only the ...

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, ...

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

BELGIAN CONGO: A Blight at Birth. 5 minute read. TIME. June 27, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... may be in for severe revision at the hands of the tribalists. In the Congo itself, ...

KAMPALA, Uganda . The word “lazy” still terrorizes 84-year-old Simon Mivuya when he recalls his grandfather, whose hands were chopped off by a Belgian rubber trader during the dark colonial ...

In 1885, when King Leopold II of Belgium first claimed ownership of this massive stretch of land sitting on the world’s deepest river, smack in the center of Africa, he called it Congo Free ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Belgium’s King Philippe returned a traditional mask to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday as a goodwill gesture during his first visit to the former Belgian ...

Belgium said on Friday that while it still considers Rwanda a key player in the region and well-placed to resolve the conflict in eastern Congo, it cannot be complacent about Rwanda’s violation ...

A British artist has been blocked from “reinterpreting” a controversial statue of a colonial Belgian king. Brixton-based ...

Belgian troops, clad in combat gear, give thumbs up as they prepare to board a plane which will carry them to the new Congo ...

So when Belgian King Philippe briefed reporters about his first visit to the country, he clutched a bottle of anti-mosquito spray in his hands — almost as a reminder that he too was a human being made ...