Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial history The horrific consequences of rubber's toxic past Thousands ... "He never went to [DR Congo] himself," the prince said in an interview.

The resulting public pressure eventually forced Belgium's King Leopold ... But why was Leopold's Congo so horrific? It was down to rubber. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the ...

Sammy Baloji demonstrates how the architectural movement — and implicitly, Belgium as a country and culture — was underpinned ...

For a prosperous half-century, tiny Belgium successfully ruled the vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with ...

That could be in the form of the encomienda system in South America, which enslaved locals, or the rubber plantations of the Belgian Congo. Meanwhile, low death rates in English-speaking offshoots ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa has raised a red flag about a “hasty beatification,” on the grounds that there are ...

To make a direct call to Belgium From Congo, you need to follow the international dialing format given below. The dialing format is same for calling Belgium mobile or land line from Congo. To call ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered one million rapid antigen tests from the Belgian pharmaceutical company Contipharma. The test gives an initial result within 10 to 15 minutes.

Johan Grimonprez’s documentary intertwines narratives of such American jazz legends as Louis Armstrong with the tragic, ...