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.

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 ...

King Philippe made the remarks in a letter to President Félix Tshisekedi of DR Congo Belgium's King Philippe has expressed his "deepest regrets" to the Democratic Republic of Congo for his ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...