For the orderly Belgians, the Congo conference in Brussels had been a three-week nightmare. Even as they were preparing to announce the Congo’s imminent independence, Joseph Kasavubu, 42, the ...

The 1910 Belgian conference slashed through the Rwandan Kingdom, carving pieces into what would become British Uganda and the Belgian Congo.

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over ...

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 ...