In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

In a previous article, we explored why there had never been a Tutsi rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) before 1995. Today, we examine the deep-rooted history of ...

So swift has been the pace of nationalist pressure in the Belgian Congo, and so harsh its violence, that by last week shaken Belgian leaders (who a few years ago boasted that their economic ...

Much of the collection is made up of artefacts from African states formerly under Belgian rule, particularly Belgian Congo ... state’s role in their history. “It was becoming a museum of ...

We hear about the moment Dr Max Perutz discovered the haemoglobin structure. Our expert is Professor Sir Alan Fersht, who is a chemist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology ...

The Banyarwanda are barely mentioned in the ethno cartography of the Belgian Congo, according to the Chris Huggins ... What should be done? How can this very mixed-up history of migration and ...

Constructed over a period of four years, at a cost of £5,200,000, a 208-mile metre gauge railway line, linking the seaport of ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian cycling team Soudal-Quick Step has withdrawn its development team from the upcoming Tour of Rwanda because of safely fears over the violent conflict in neighboring Congo. Some ...

MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.