The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice ... The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around Congo ...

Western meddling after Belgian Congo gained independence in 1960 saw its fledgling democracy quickly snuffed out and replaced by a corrupt autocracy, propped up by the United States. Both Belgium ...

So swift has been the pace of nationalist pressure in the Belgian Congo, and so harsh its violence ... were resigned to an offer of full independence for the Congolese this year.

Rwanda suspended development cooperation with Belgium for trying to “sabotage” its access to financing amid disagreements over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice ... s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around Congo ...