Belated exposures of “Belgian Atrocities” in the Congo—true tales of Blackamoors whose hands were hacked off when they failed to bring in sufficient rubber or ivory—were utilized by the ...

Belgium finally apologized for its part in Lumumba's death 41 years after the fact. Lumumba's killing ended democracy in Congo for nearly a half century.

Belgium's King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to apologise for decades of brutal rule. Here are some ...

Six biracial women are suing the Belgian government for crimes against humanity in a landmark case after they were snatched from the families decades ago.

Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its bloody past ...

Belgium on Tuesday dismantled the statue of King Leopold II, the former monarch held responsible for the deaths of millions of Africans, as the country’s current king expressed his “deepest ...

Belgium’s King Philippe (second from left) greets the children of Congo’s former prime minister Patrice Lumumba (from left), Juliana, Francois and Roland, at the Royal Palace in Brussels, Monday.

* From Belgium’s King Leopold II. In the 1880s, when Europe was busy dividing up the continent of Africa, he laid personal claim to the largely uncharted Congo Free State. But Leopold’s rubber ...

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 ...