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Three envoys went to Congo with a quid pro quo offer from Washington. The venture ended with them fleeing the country two ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decades-long ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the Congo Free State was one of the hardest places to be a human. For several decades, Belgian soldiers and business owners brutalized thousands of Congolese locals.

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 ...

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 ...