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, Belgian ...

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 ...

Etienne Davignon, a former Belgian diplomat and EU commissioner implicated in the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba, has died aged 93, his family told AFP Monday. Davignon ...

Belgium’s Court of Cassation has delivered a definitive ruling against the Belgian state on account of the removal mixed-race ...

When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and 1960, thousands of mixed-race children were abducted from their Black mothers and raised as orphans in Catholic institutions and homes. Five ...

Hell isn't hot enough for Etienne Davignon. The brutal assassination of anti-colonial icon Patrice Lumumba has remained a festering wound in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo for over six ...

A Belgian court on Tuesday ordered 93-year-old former diplomat Etienne Davignon to stand trial for his role in the 1961 assassination of the first elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of ...

"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 ...