President Felix Tshisekedi welcomed Belgian troops to Kindu, DR Congo, on March 17, 2025 – 300 to 400 commandos with tanks and drones. The next morning, Tshisekedi flew first-class to Qatar, shook ...

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over ...

On a peaceful, sunny Sunday at a lake outside Leopoldville, where hundreds of Belgian families and ... could be done until he got more troops for his Congo force. He was briefly cheered when ...

Belgian troops then intervened unasked ... This was carried out through Lumumba's opponents in the Congo. In November 1960 he was kidnapped and taken to Katanga. In January 1961 he was shot ...

Pieters, a Belgian who signed the death certificates ... composed of eleven Afro-Asian countries that sent troops to the Congo, advised that Ileo might be able to bring peace with a broad-based ...

The United Nations estimates that Kigali has around 4,000 troops in Congo. Belgium, the former colonial power in Congo and Rwanda, led calls for the EU to suspend the 2024 raw materials agreement ...

Rwanda has acknowledged that its troops are in Congo but denied controlling M23 ... and very little development after decades of Belgian colonialism. Then, after independence, the United ...

Belgium's foreign affairs minister Maxime Prevot said the move was "disproportionate and shows that when we disagree with ...

And in February, the UN Security Council demanded that the M23 end hostilities and that Rwanda should pull its troops out of DR Congo. Rwanda's diplomatic spat with Belgium came a day before the ...

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