Multinational corporations are the modern-day Leopold II, albeit with better PR teams. Despite numerous pledges for ethical sourcing, many tech giants continue to profit from Congo's misery. A 2022 ...

The recent history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been one of civil war and corruption. It is rich in ...

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

For the DRC, a nation with over 200 ethnic groups, the ultimate result was a fragile state structure ... When Belgium’s King Leopold II declared the Congo his personal property in the late ...

A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

Little is known about Ota Benga’s early life. He was born amidst the unspeakable colonial horror of King Leopold of Belgium’s Congo Free State. Benga lived in the equatorial forests around the ...

A man with an obscure claim to a royal fortune made a deal to help regain his crown. It cost him more than he could imagine ...

He went off to work instead for King Leopold of the Belgians ... unilaterally changed the name of his International Association of the Congo, and called it the Congo Free State. He was personally its ...

The conflict's roots became even more entangled when the Belgian government took over administration of Congo in 1908 from King Leopold II, who had run the ... political citizens of the newly ...