If the whole Congo Free State is in slavery, as appears to be the case if Mr. MOREL'S account is true, a new agreement by the Powers is desirable, and one that shall not only abate the cruel ...

The horrific atrocities that took place in the Congo Free State are often compared to the Holocaust, with king Leopold II of Belgium being compared to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Between 1885 ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo wants a peace agreement with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels before a planned summit next month ...

The Congo supplies the U.S. with well over half the uranium produced in the non-Communist world; it also mines and exports 75% of the free world’s cobalt (essential for jet aircraft engines), 70 ...

The foreign ministers for Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the ...

The agreement marks a breakthrough in talks and intends to attract billions of dollars of Western investment to a region rich ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are set to sign a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decadeslong ...

Between 1885 and 1908, the Belgian King Leopold II personally ruled the Congo Free State, which was also known as the Independent State of the Congo. Because he ruled the state personally, he had ...

IN a lecture at the Royal Anthropological Institute on November 29, Dr. Arthur Keith dealt with the physical characters and relationships of certain negro tribes in Equatorial Africa. His account ...

Leopold announces the establishment of the Congo Free State, headed by himself. 1908 - Belgian state annexes Congo amid protests over killings and atrocities carried out on a mass scale by Leopold ...

THE CONGO FREE STATE. Share full article. Feb. 27, 1906. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 27, 1906, Page 8 Buy Reprints.