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A Belgian paratrooper hands a bottle of beer to Congolese troops as both groups patrol Boulevard Albert in Leopoldville, ...
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 ...
Patrice Lumumba, left, leader of the Congolese National Party (MNC) and Prime Minister-Designate of the Belgian Congo, ...
Virunga is Africa’s first national park, created by Belgian royal decree in 1925. Named for the mountains that straddle the ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Scenes from three cities on a continent on the brink.
THE PHILIPPINES is unlikely to alter its foreign policy stance even if the International Criminal Court (ICC) grants interim release to former President Rodrigo R. Duterte, a diplomacy expert said, as ...
Settled in Brussels with his Belgian wife, Jessica, and one-year-old daughter Mia, he is emphatic there will be no England ...