Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Belgium's King Philippe returned a traditional mask to Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday (June 8). It was, he said, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke was meant to ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s exploitation on poles ...

From 1885 until a year before his 1909 death, Belgium’s King Leopold II ruled the Congo Free State as his personal fiefdom, enslaving the region’s inhabitants for the mass production of rubber. The ...

Belgium's King Philippe returned a traditional mask to Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday on his first visit to the former colony, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to apologise for ...

This week, King Philippe of Belgium returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a ceremonial mask stolen during the European country’s violent rule of the former colony. The repatriation took ...

Belgium’s King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, racism and acts of violence during his country’s colonization of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but again ...

But so far, the monarch has not apologized for decades of brutal Belgian rule during which up to 10 million Congolese people died. By Ruth Maclean and Elian Peltier DAKAR, Senegal — The king of ...

King Leopold II took over leadership of Belgium from his father, King Leopold I, in 1865, and in 1885, hoping to gain power and wealth as well as assuming control of overseas territories like most ...

Belgium's King Philippe shakes hands with Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi. [Reuters] Belgium's King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, ...