(Reuters) - An investigating magistrate has been appointed in Belgium after Democratic Republic of the Congo in December filed criminal complaints accusing Apple subsidiaries of using so-called ...

Along that riverbank a thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files. . . . Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! Boom, steal the pigmies. . . . Boom, kill the white ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Rwanda suspended development cooperation with Belgium for trying to “sabotage” its access to financing amid ...

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal colonisation of the Congo inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Hew ...

To the shocked Belgians, it seemed a bitter reward for their promise of freedom next June 30 to the rich Congo colony. No sooner had the painful independence pact been completed than the Congo’s ...

"While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have ...

Lea Tavares Mujinga, Simone Vandenbroecke Ngalula, Monique Bitu Bingi, Noelle Verbeken and Marie Jose Loshi pictured during a hearing in the case of five Belgian-Congolese women against the Belgian ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Millions of records spanning Belgium’s brutal rule in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo are at the ...

Belgium's King Philippe expressed his "deepest regrets" for the harm done during Belgian colonial rule in DR Congo, in a first for his country. King Philippe of Belgium expressed his 'deepest regrets' ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered Belgium to close a consulate and cut flights by Brussels Airlines, Belgium's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, in a further ...