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 ...
Albert Kunyuku Ngoma was a young Congolese corporal in the colonial Belgian army when he was forced to battle in WWII as far away as Myanmar. Now 97, Ngoma is one of only two surviving former members ...
BRUSSELS, June 28 (Reuters) - Five decades after it ended its reign as a feared ruler in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium is still coming to terms with its shady past and cannot quite decide ...
BRUSSELS — Belgian officials imprisoned Patrice Lumumba as a rabble-rouser. When, shortly afterward, he became the first prime minister of an independent Congo, once their largest and most profitable ...
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 ...
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Coincidences in February 26th Berlin Conference, Congo talks
What a coincidence that February 26th is arriving at this time! It is the day, 140 years ago, when the colonial powers (today you would call them land grabbers) held the Congo Conference, also known ...
Uganda's only nesting colony of the Critically Endangered Rüppell's Vulture is facing destruction as charcoal burning, farming and hunting threaten Luku Central Forest Reserve in Arua District. The ...
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