The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went ...

The US-brokered truce may end fighting – but could also open the door to a new scramble for Congo’s critical minerals.

When I look back on those years, I almost feel like that was a different person. This kind of trauma can transform you for ...

A British artist has been blocked from “reinterpreting” a controversial statue of a colonial Belgian king. Brixton-based ...

On television, she starred with Jack Warden on ‘Jigsaw John’ and had memorable guest spots on ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show.’ ...

KING LEOPOLD DENIES CHARGES AGAINST HIM; Is Poorer Instead of Richer Because of the Congo, He Says. NOT A MONSTER, EITHER May Have Been Misjudgment and Even Crime in the African Region, but No ...

It doesn’t add up that Leopold’s killed ¾ of the Congo’s population. So I studied more and then I realized those numbers were completely falsified by a leftist academic.” ...

LEOPOLD THE UNLOVED—Ludwig Bauer —Little, Brown ($3.50). To readers now over 50, the name of Leopold II of Belgium on the cover of a book will connote one thing—the Congo atrocities.

Belgian King Leopold II established his country as a colonial power in Africa and is known for the widespread atrocities committed under his rule, resulting in over 10 million people in the Congo ...

Leopold II, Belgium’s longest reigning monarch from 1865 to 1909, is notorious for instigating a brutal colonial regime in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

King Leopold II ruled Congo as an absolute monarch, pillaging it of rubber and minerals during a genocide that killed millions Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

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 ...