BRUSSELS/DAKAR (Reuters) - Belgium's King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to apologise for decades of brutal ...

The recent course of imperialism, and debates within anarchist movements over contemporary atrocities, reveal a certain lack of familiarity with anarchist positions on colonialism and imperialism. The ...

A recent study published in the premier American Journal of Public Health estimates that over 1,000 women are raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) every day. In the DRC, 48 women are raped ...

Belgium’s King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, racism and acts of violence during his country’s colonization of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but again ...

The film begins with a Congolese man opening a camera case and turning over its contents. This shot, which could easily be read as a symbolic shorthand for the technology of documentation being in the ...

Be it in the Mediterranean or the heart of Africa in Congo, colonialism isn’t past, it’s a modern day disaster. In the first half of the show, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear brings us ...

Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa / AP) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become ...

Massive crowds thronged Kinshasa for a glimpse of the popemobile, cheering and waving flags as the 86-year-old pontiff made his way from the airport to the presidential palace. On his fifth trip to ...

TERVUREN, Belgium – For decades, Belgian schoolchildren had come to the Africa Museum near Brussels to marvel at the stuffed animals, drums, ritual masks and minerals that glowed in the darkness of ...

Ruth Sacks receives funding from the National Arts Council for research in the Congo conducted while undergoing a PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand. Years ago, while I was in Belgium on an ...

If you are like me, everything you learned about Congo and the Congolese people as a young person, you learned from Tintin In the Congo. The graphic novel shows how Congolese musicians have spread ...