The process of decolonialising life and thinking in Europe must start with education. The ever-present legacy of Belgian colonialism is a good place to start. In the opinion of many historians, the ...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo - Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's ...

As the first member of the Belgian government to visit the Congo since his country prematurely and disastrously thrust its former colony into independence, Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak might ...

Rwanda’s government has blamed Belgium’s colonial rule for the ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide.

The United Nations estimates that Kigali has around 4,000 troops in Congo. Belgium, the former colonial power in Congo and Rwanda, led calls for the EU to suspend the 2024 raw materials agreement ...

a rebel group at the centre of DR Congo's crisis. The authorities in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, have given Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country. Belgium, which is the former colonial ...

In the 1880s, colonial interest groups were active across ... which ultimately led to the creation of the Belgian Congo. CARICATURE OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE OF 1885: CHANCELLOR BISMARCK DIVIDING ...