Twenty years after the World War Belgium is still torn with Wartime ... Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before another war, succeeded in having ...

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It is unfortunate that Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prevot’s actions, past and present, do not align with his words, Rwanda’s Minister of Justice, Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, stressed on Tuesday, March ...

Great Britain, Portugal, France, Germany, and King Leopold II of Belgium began sending scouts to secure trade and sovereignty treaties with local leaders, buying or simply staking flags and laying ...

For His Majesty a 200-mile motorcycle sprint is only a fair day’s run—and 200 miles approximately suffice to cross Belgium from one side to the other in any direction. Beloved, fearless, King ...

The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and Nicholas Harris In 1879, shortly before the 1884 Berlin Conference let loose the “scramble for Africa”, King Leopold of Belgium, the most brutal of the colonial ...