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

Even as they were preparing to announce the Congo’s imminent independence ... assurance that a Congolese government would guarantee Belgian property, shares in colonial corporations have ...

The Rwandan government decided to sever diplomatic relations with Belgium on Monday, March 17, after the European country “consistently undermined Rwanda, both well before and during the ongoing ...

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.

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

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

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.

President Paul Kagame, on March 16, cautioned Belgium against interfering in Rwanda's progress, accusing it of blaming Rwanda for DR Congo's problems and conspiring to impose sanctions, despite its ...