Bingi and four other biracial women are now suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity, with the women seeking compensation of $55,000. The other women in the suit -- Noelle Verbeken ...

Congo's government is marking the 50th anniversary on Wednesday with pomp and circumstance, and the invited guests include Belgian King Albert II and the U.N. secretary-general.

Few countries in Africa proved more receptive to the work of Christian missions than the Belgian Congo. Since 1878, when the first Protestant missionaries (Baptists) arrived, their numbers grew ...

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 ...

The government will have to pay reparations to the families of five mixed-race women who were forcibly separated from their families in the colonial-era Belgian Congo. In his 1899 semi ...

In May of 1956 die Belgian Socialist Party devoted an Extraordinary Congress to the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi and elaborated a sound program for these territories, but this initiative was followed ...

Belgium will also hand over a tooth, suspected to be the only remains of Congo’s first prime minister Patrice Lumumba, to his family this month. The Belgian government took partial ...

* 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.

Belgium’s controversial Africa Museum re-opened on Saturday after a five-year renovation, but protests and a request from the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the return ...

Later this month, Belgium is also scheduled to return the remains of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first prime minister, who was assassinated in 1960 following a coup supported by the Belgian ...

Belgian king expresses regret for predecessor’s brutal colonial rule in Congo Belgium’s King Philippe gives a speech during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the ...