BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's King Philippe expressed deep regret on Tuesday for the "suffering and humiliation" inflicted on the Democratic Republic of Congo during its 75 years under Belgian rule.

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Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people as “savage” and “wild”. Narratives of a “continent without ...

Thomas Dermine is Belgium’s State Secretary for Scientific Policy, Recovery Program, and Strategic Investments. This month, he made a proposal that was accepted by the federal government to create a ...

An employee helps to remove the vandalized statue of King Leopold II in Ghent, Belgium. Getty Images Belgium on Tuesday dismantled the statue of King Leopold II, the former monarch held responsible ...

Belgium on Tuesday dismantled the statue of King Leopold II, the former monarch held responsible for the deaths of millions of Africans, as the country’s current king expressed his “deepest regrets” ...

Belgium still behaves as though it is Europe’s natural interpreter of Central Africa, a role inherited from its colonial past and rarely questioned in European circles. For decades, Belgian officials ...

Black Lives Matter protests in France and the United Kingdom have intensified the domestic debate over their countries’ past colonialism and present racism. Demonstrators, numbering in the thousands, ...

Princess Esmeralda of Belgium is renewing a call for her country to apologize for its colonial past. Historians estimate that more than 10 million Congolese people were killed during Belgian King ...

The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, in a first for the Belgian monarchy, ...