Their humanity and resilience stand in stark contrast to the relentless suffering foisted upon them - tribulations so ...

Recently, former US President Joe Biden visited Angola to push the Lobito Corridor infrastructure project, which will ship ...

The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...

The king’s severed head is a nod to ... power symbol but also one of most chilling aspects of Leopold’s vicious plunder of the Congo. Belgian colonialists infamously cut off the hands of ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country whose name has ... It was the private fiefdom of the Belgian King, Leopold II that was then handed over to the Belgian government and those ...

“It is not normal that Belgium held onto the remains ... to activists fighting to have monuments to King Leopold II removed. Leopold had plundered Congo during his 1865-1909 reign and forced ...

By train, by bus, by tram, by motor, by cart and by foot, every Belgian who ... niece of the King of Sweden. There followed a very brief speech from the throne in which Leopold III promised ...

The Order of Leopold was conferred today upon Muni Goldmuntz, Belgian Jewish philanthropist, on the occasion of his 50th birthday. The presentation was made by Minister of Economic Affairs ...

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...