In the darkest corner of a grand museum that looks like a neo-classical palace lies a not-so-secret room. It is filled with statues of Congolese people, which have been regarded as racist, that ...

Colonial administrators also kidnapped orphaned children from communities and transported them to "child colonies" to work or train as soldiers ... time Belgium's ugly history in Congo has ...

Joseph Clark, for many years a missionary in Congo, gave a very interesting lecture ... and the instances of cruelty on the part of soldiers to gain this end are barbarous beyond belief.

A military court in Congo handed down death sentences on Friday ... most of them Congolese but also including three US citizens, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian, have five days to appeal ...

A Canadian, Belgian and a British citizen were also ... before they were eventually captured or killed by government soldiers. Congo lifted a more than two-decade-long moratorium on carrying ...

Some ten million live in what the Belgian ... eastern Congo. “You see the woman has her arm extended out,” he says. “She’s protecting the children inside. She’s fighting the soldier.

Among the militia’s foot soldiers deemed salvageable ... During the year of Kambale’s birth, 1960, Congo won its independence from Belgium. Its population, 15 million, was a fifth of what ...

The appeal process following a trial in which 37 people were sentenced to death over what the army said was a failed coup bid began on Thursday, an AFP journalist saw.

Angry protesters burnt the flags of the US and Belgium, DR Congo's former colonial power, on Monday. Demonstrations have taken place outside several Western embassies in recent days . In the ...

The cheapest time of year to fly from DR Congo to Belgium is usually October and costs around £478. If you're not sure when you want to go, and October doesn't work for you, we can help. Just take a ...

Women's cries fill the night air in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Every morning the ... Everyone says they know who did the shooting: a soldier with the Republican Guard.