Reversing an earlier ruling that found too much time had passed since the alleged wrongdoing, the Brussels appeals court said the women, born in Belgian-ruled Congo and now in their 70s ...

Five of these victims—a group of women now in their ... forceful smack from a nun she received when she was 5.” When Belgian Congo gained independence in 1960, the girls of Katende were ...

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 forced removal of mixed-race children in the Belgian Congo had its roots in the policies of King Léopold II, who ruled the Congo as his personal colony from 1885 to 1908. Who was responsible ...

Simone Vandenbroeck (l) and Léa Tavares Mujinga are two of the five women who have won their case for reparations A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has filed a complaint against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech company of using conflict minerals in its supply chain, Reuters ...

STORY: The Democratic Republic of Congo sued Apple in France and Belgium Monday. It accused the firm of being complicit in the conflict minerals trade. Congo in central Africa is a major source of ...

The Belgium government in 2019 issued a formal apology to an estimated 20,000 victims of forced family separations in DR Congo, as well as Burundi and Rwanda. DR Congo was governed by Belgium as a ...