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

Internationally, Belgium is well-known for the atrocities its then-King Leopold II and later the State committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under colonial rule. Strikingly, many ...

The men who exposed the horrors of Leopold’s Congo The Congo is widely seen as the most horrendous example of Europe’s colonisation in the 19th century. Seized by King Leopold II as his personal ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...