A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king ... of the Congo’s exploitation, including a severed hand and Leopold’s ...

The Presbyterian Church (USA), a mainline Protestant denomination that has historically been one of the most influential Christian missionary-sending agencies, recently fired missionaries around the ...

Munene gave a historical account of the Congo crisis, tracing it to the Berlin Conference of 1884, and argued that the ...

Belgium’s interests in DR Congo extend beyond the current crisis and the destabilisation of Rwanda. According to research, these interests are deeply rooted in a colonial-era agenda aimed at the ...

This is the reason why Hitler is demonised, but not King Leopold, whose tenure as King of Belgium saw the annihilation of the population of the Congo ... the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and ...

So is Paul Kagame, the king ... genocide and civil war. The Eyadema clan has ruled Togo continuously since 1967 and between them Mobutu and the Kabilas ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

ShareWhile the world looks away, Paul Kagame, the Iron Man of Rwanda is digging deeper in Congo Democratic Republic, expanding not just his grip but also bent on appropriating the vast mineral ...

Colonial empires spanned continents, using similar methods to consolidate power and exploit resources. These systems of oppression often blurred the lines between war crimes, human rights abuses, and ...

By 1913, more than half of the ivory in those pianos came from King Leopold’s Congo, where atrocities against indigenous people were common. Belgian Congo administrators even made it illegal for ...

From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. These atrocities were particularly associated with the labour ...

According to this narrative, the conflict began in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 ... when the Belgian government took over administration of Congo in 1908 from King Leopold II, who had ...