Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke, the British artist, will ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s ...

AFA copy 39088019024595 is a gift from Janet Stanley. In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored ...

Overlooking Kinshasa from the seclusion of a presidential garden, the statue of Belgian King Leopold II stares over the Congo River far from the protests and rage targetting colonial figures elsewhere ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- A statue of the late King Leopold II, whose Belgian government was responsible for the deaths of millions of Congolese, was mysteriously taken down Thursday, a day after it was ...

In 1885 a coalition of European powers granted personal ownership of the Congo, a region rich in minerals and rubber, to Belgium’s King Leopold II. His royal army enslaved the native population ...

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' ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has historically served as a primary hindquarter of European colonialism, ...