While Britain and France poured large sums into overseas territories, the Congo colony’s $960 million ten-year development plan has been 70% financed by the Congo itself.

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 ...

The owner of the prize called it “Congo Free State” a personal property then not yet a colony of his kingdom, Belgium. The other European colonisers upheld Leopold’s ownership of Congo and ...

The Republic of the Congo is the "little Congo," a former French colony that has Brazzaville as its capital. They are adjacent to each other and separated by the Congo River.

Belgium is open to deeper involvement in Democratic Republic of Congo's minerals sector, its foreign minister said on a visit to the former Belgian colony, which is seeking to diversify its ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) What kind of art is left behind by totalitarian regimes? A new free-to-read book called Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence explores the visual ...

It does so by exploring two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II of Belgium's Congo Colony (1908-1960) and Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaire, ...

DR Congo was governed by Belgium as a colony from 1908 to 1960. Monique Bitu Bingi, Léa Tavares Mujinga, Noëlle Verbeken, Simone Ngalula and Marie-José Loshi launched a legal case for ...

Congo was a Belgian colony from 1908 until 1960, when it gained independence. The Belgian government apologized for abducting the métis in 2019. “In the name of the federal government, I present my ...