The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the ...

Earlier this month King Philippe's brother, Prince Laurent, defended Leopold II. "He never went to [DR Congo] himself," the prince said in an interview. "I do not see how he could have made people ...

Between 1885 and 1908, the Belgian King Leopold II personally ruled the Congo Free State, which was also known as the Independent State of the Congo. Because he ruled the state personally ...

On Friday the younger brother of Belgium's King Philippe, Prince Laurent, defended his ancestor saying Leopold II was not responsible for atrocities in the colony "because he never went to Congo".

In addition to the continent being divided up amongst European countries, King Leopold II was given the Congo Free State as his own personal possession. The Congo Free State is now known as the ...

KISHINJI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - APRIL 4: Displaced community members who have fled the M23 ... [+] conflict leave a Doctors Without Borders discussion group on the subject of sexual ...

Belgium had a particular moral duty to act because looting of Congo's resources began during the 19th-century colonial rule of its King Leopold II, Congo's Belgian lawyer Christophe Marchand said.

Belgium’s King Leopold II ruled the Congo as his personal colony between 1885 and 1908, brutally exploiting it for rubber, ivory and minerals, enslaving and killing millions of people in the ...