TERVUREN, Belgium – For decades, Belgian schoolchildren had come to the Africa Museum near Brussels to marvel at the stuffed animals, drums, ritual masks and minerals that glowed in the darkness of ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium apologized on Thursday for kidnapping thousands of mixed-race children from Congo between 1959 and 1962, in a move to address the legacy of its often brutal 80 years of ...

BRUSSELS — A Brussels appeals court ruled on Monday that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women in Congo who were taken away from their Black mothers ...

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 ...

Five Belgian Congo métis (mixed race) women have won a case they filed against Belgium over crimes against humanity. Belgium governed what is now Democratic Republic of Congo from 1908 to 1960 as a ...

In a landmark case, a court ruled that the women, now in their 70s and 80s, who were taken from their parents in Belgian Congo, were victims of a crime against humanity. By Jenny Gross and Elian ...

Arguing over demographic decline in colonial Congo strikes Belgian-born Jan Vansina, professor emeritus of history and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, as futile. "I don't think (the ...

TERVUREN, Belgium (AP) — When it comes to ruthless colonialism and racism, few historical figures are more notorious than Leopold II, the Belgian king who held Congo as his personal property and may ...

BRUSSELS/DAKAR, June 8 (Reuters) - Belgium's King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to apologise for decades of ...

On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule and ordered it to pay compensation as a form of ...