Last week Governor General Pierre Ryckmans of the Belgian Congo announced that “unoccupied Belgium” was at war with Italy. Casus belli: Italy had committed hostile acts against Belgium ...

Did Apple knowingly use conflict minerals from the DR Congo? A Belgian investigating judge is now looking into this question.

Belgium's colonial record in DR Congo was one of the bloodiest in Africa ... the last surviving Congolese World War II veteran who fought alongside the Belgians. At a memorial of former fighters ...

The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ABAKO, Association des Bakongo and the Lulua-Freres, emerged in the 1950's. But it was the attitude of ...

Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what lawyers for the central African country have ...

Apple is facing criminal complaints by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which accuses the company of illegally using ...

DR Congo has Africa's biggest number of orphans, from war and outbreaks of disease (file pic) Belgian authorities have asked for DNA samples of children adopted from the Democratic Republic of ...

Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.

Reversing an earlier ruling that found too much time had passed since the alleged wrongdoing, the Brussels appeals court said the women, born in Belgian-ruled Congo ... World War II, the court ...

Congo accused local subsidiaries Apple France, Apple Retail France and Apple Retail Belgium of a range of offences. These include covering up war crimes and the laundering of tainted minerals ...