Lumumba remains a leading figure in Congolese and African history. He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose ...

The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went ...

The Art Nouveau movement took off in Brussels in the 1890s, with Victor Horta's 1893 Hôtel Tassel on Rue Paul-Emile Janson often cited as its architectural starting point. Adriaenssens stresses that ...

Despite peace deal signed in Washington with Rwanda, Congolese government will use available mechanisms to pursue justice for ...

The agreement outlines provisions for the "respect for territorial integrity and halting hosilities" in eastern DRC but are ...

Congress established Independence Day as a holiday in 1870, and in 1938 Congress reaffirmed it as a paid holiday for federal employees. Today, communities across the nation mark this major ...

Spain's Constitutional Court ruled to uphold most aspects of the disputed amnesty law for Catalan separatists. However, the ...

Spain's Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld core elements of a disputed amnesty law enacted by the Socialist government ...

From players to watch to pedigree and much more, we set out what to expect from Belgium at the European Championship ...

Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the ...

Belgium will introduce border checks on people coming into the country to clamp down on illegal migration, the government ...

On June 30, 1960, Patrice Lumumba freed the Congo from Belgian colonial rule and became the country's first prime minister. He promised democracy, prosperity and an end to the exploitation of ...