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 ...

Two of three undergraduate researchers studying the Burke Museum’s African collection stood beside seven floor-to-ceiling ...

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 ...

A statue of King Leopold II of Belgium in Namur, Friday 12 June 2020. Credit: Belga/Bruno Fahy Internationally, Belgium is well-known for the atrocities its then-King Leopold II and later the State ...

Exclusive: Ben Affleck will direct King Leopold’s Ghost, a fact-based drama about the plunder of the Congo by Belgium ’s King Leopold II in the late 1800s. One Community, which co-financed Just Mercy, ...

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda on Friday signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help ...

Artists Hew Locke Speaks Out After Belgian City Cancels Sculpture Commission The artist says moving the site specific piece will "destroy" it meaning and value.

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.’ ...

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 ...

The US wants Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo to sign a peace deal by July, according to a top State Department official for Africa.