Accordingly, UNSC Resolution 143 (1960) led to the establishment of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (known by its ...

The Congo became independent on June 30 ... acts against European residents and their property. On July 11, Belgian paratroopers arrived to protect Belgian civilians and touched off a widespread ...

Not everybody was as lucky. Jacques Bollaerts, 25, a former Belgian paratrooper, tried to shield one of the women as they ran. “Faster, Odette, I’m covering you,” he cried just before he ...

On 24 November, Belgian paratroopers were dropped on Kisangani ... including Mozambique, Angola and Congo-Brazzaville, but landed on the DRC after, as he called it, the CIA's brutal intervention ...

Congo says three Americans convicted of participating in a botched coup attempt last year have been repatriated to the United ...

Belgium has denied claims that it has sent troops to engage rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid a diplomatic spat between Belgium and Rwanda. View on euronews ...

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 ...

Belgium is perhaps better known for having colonised the Congo. However, it also colonised present-day Rwanda and neighbouring Burundi. Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony ...

Rwanda has accused Belgium of repeatedly undermining Rwanda over the M23 offensive in Congo. Rwanda announced on Monday that it had severed diplomatic ties with Belgium, giving Belgian diplomats ...

a Belgian and a Canadian. Charges included terrorism, murder, criminal association and illegal possession of weapons. The fate of the others was not immediately clear. Congo had reinstated the ...

Belgium and Rwanda are expelling each other's diplomats in tit-for-tat moves as part of an escalating dispute over the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda announced on Monday ...