[Reuters] Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo fired tear gas Monday to disperse protesters who burned tyres and U.S. and Belgian flags near ... the United States and Belgium, and a United ...

Between 1885 and 1908, the Belgian King Leopold II personally ruled the Congo Free State, which was also known as the Independent State of the Congo. Because he ruled the state personally ...

Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 - activists want this statue in Brussels removed due to his brutal regime in Congo Free State Inside the palatial walls of Belgium's Africa Museum stand ...