Due to the deteriorating security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the beginning of 2025, Reporters ...

Working with the utmost care, a Belgian deminer wiggled a century-old artillery shell from the soil and deposited it safely ...

KINSHASA, - Belgium is open to deeper involvement in Democratic Republic of Congo's minerals sector, its foreign minister said on a visit to the former Belgian colony, which is seeking to ...

As the mutiny spread throughout the Congo, Belgian authorities sent paratroopers beginning on 9 July 1960, and continued to initiate military action, killing black civilians in the process and ...

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. News reports and social ...

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 ...

On 24 November, Belgian paratroopers were dropped on Kisangani ... Dennis Lee Royle / AP Photo April 1965: Che Guevara in the Congo Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara wanted ...

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 ...

On 24 November, Belgian paratroopers were dropped on Kisangani under the pretext ... April 1965: Che Guevara in the Congo Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara wanted to extend his ...

In a statement released Monday, Rwanda's foreign ministry said, "The Government of Rwanda today notified the Government of Belgium of its ... Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said it will ...

Just across the Congo River from Leopoldville sits Brazzaville ... African police opened fire, and Belgian paratroopers manned key points about the European part of the city.