During World War II the Congo even paid the bills for the Belgian government in exile. While Britain and France poured large sums into overseas territories, the Congo colony’s $960 million ten ...

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal ...

Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels ...

Belgium's King Philippe has decried the racism meted out in the Democratic Republic of Congo under the colonial rule of his ancestors. "This regime was one of unequal relations, unjustifiable in ...

It's not clear who was responsible for the act of vandalism, Congo's ministry of culture said in a statement Tuesday. The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been ...

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 ...

Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s ...

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized.

The cheapest time of year to fly from Belgium to DR Congo is usually January and costs around £468. If you're not sure when you want to go, and January doesn't work for you, we can help. Just take a ...