Patrice Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first prime minister, was widely beloved in his nation for his advocacy of African liberation. After his brutal assassination following a coup led ...

Evidence of direct Belgian government complicity in the execution of the Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba must be made public and those implicated questioned, a historian demanded yesterday.

Lea Tavares Mujinga, Simone Vandenbroecke Ngalula, Monique Bitu Bingi, Noelle Verbeken and Marie Jose Loshi pictured during a hearing in the case of five Belgian-Congolese women against the Belgian ...

When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and 1960, thousands of mixed-race children were abducted from their Black mothers and raised as orphans in Catholic institutions and homes. Five ...

A Belgian court on Tuesday ordered 93-year-old former diplomat Etienne Davignon to stand trial for his role in the 1961 assassination of the first elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of ...

"While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have ...