The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday celebrated the 100th anniversary of Patrice Lumumba’s birth. An official ...

The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went ...

Patrice Lumumba had his body dissolved in acid in 1961, and his gold-capped tooth - his only remains - was kept in Belgium ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Belgium’s King Philippe expressed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s abuses in its former colony Congo, telling lawmakers Wednesday on his first official trip to ...

KINSHASA, June 8 (Reuters) - Belgium's King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, racism and acts of violence during his country's colonisation of the ...

Rwanda’s Consul in Antwerp, Gunther Vanpraet, has blamed the Belgian government’s one-sided diplomatic position on the DR Congo security crisis, calling it both “disrespectful” to Rwanda ...

It was hard being a youth in Kinshasa in the 1950s. Known as Leopoldville at the time, the capital of Congo was under the control of Belgian colonialists. Segregation meant there were no-go zones ...

Congo-Kinshasa: A Belgian diplomat in Kisangani- What for? 4 July 2001. L'Avenir (Kinshasa) ... We cannot draw this conclusion without having in mind the resumption of Belgium-DRC cooperation.

Kinshasa — Belgian Foreign Minister Andre Flahaut ended a three-day working visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday with a promise to continue military cooperation with Kinshasa ...

BioDev-II visa pilot project: first operational installation at Belgian embassy in Kinshasa. Kinshasa/Brussels — BioDev-II is an experiment of seven EU Member States from the Schengen area, plus the ...

Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital ...