For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over their role in invading eastern Congo and plundering its mineral wealth.

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then helped Patrice Lumumba’s electoral campaign in the Belgian Congo, before ...

annexing Rwandan territories to the Belgian Congo and Uganda. 1916 In 1916, Germany was defeated militarily by Belgium over the control of Rwanda. From 1917, Belgium initiated a deep reform of ...

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’s government has blamed Belgium’s colonial rule for the ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide.

Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with Belgium, saying it has been "consistently undermined" by the European nation during the ...

Belgium and Rwanda announced the expulsion of each other's diplomats, as relations deteriorated over allegations about their ...

Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony, in 1916 during the first world war. They got help from nearby ...

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Monday pulled out of peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo's government less than 24 ...