Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over ...

Cartography, the science and practice of making maps, became a political weapon ... carving pieces into what would become British Uganda and the Belgian Congo. These weren't just boundaries ...

For the orderly Belgians, the Congo conference in Brussels had been ... full assurance that a Congolese government would guarantee Belgian property, shares in colonial corporations have dropped ...

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 ...