The women at the centre of the legal case said they were taken away from their families, brought up in a convent, mistreated ...

Belgium has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the kidnapping of mixed-race children in the Congo, the first time the country is held accountable for its actions as a colonial power.

The Brussels Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of five women born to a black mother and a white father. As children, they ...

In a landmark case, a court ruled that the women, now in their 70s and 80s, who were taken from their parents in Belgian ...

The Belgian state was ordered Monday to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly placed in an orphanage 70 ...

FILE - Workers stand by a memorial for Democratic Republic of the Congo independence hero Patrice ... of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around Congo ...

KINSHASA, Congo — (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice ... Lumumba's tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated ...

The Belgian state was ordered Monday to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly placed in an orphanage 70 ...