But so far, the monarch has not apologized for decades of brutal Belgian ... and ivory using torture and murder in what the Congolese professor Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja called “the Congo ...

BRUSSELS/DAKAR (Reuters) - Belgium's King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many ... elephant ivory masks, manuscripts and musical instruments ...

Belgium’s King Philippe has expressed “deepest regrets for the wounds of the past” on his first visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo ... rubber crop, ivory and minerals.

Belgium’s King Leopold II ruled the Congo as his personal colony between 1885 and 1908, brutally exploiting it for rubber, ivory and minerals, enslaving and killing millions of people in the ...

Kinshasa (AFP) – Belgium's King Philippe landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday ... pillaged for its mineral wealth, timber and ivory. The visit is King Philippe's first to ...