A statue of former Belgian King Leopold II, a controversial figure in the history of Belgium, stands in the city of Ghent BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The brother of Belgium's king joined a swelling debate ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Affleck will direct King Leopold’s Ghost, a fact-based drama about the plunder of the Congo by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 1800s. One Community, which co-financed Just Mercy, ...

Ben Affleck is leaving Gotham City and heading to the Congo. The “Batman” star, 47, is set to direct and produce “King Leopold’s Ghost,” a factual drama about Belgium’s King Leopold II’s exploitation ...

CNN — The King of Belgium has sent his "deepest regrets" to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the "suffering and humiliation" his nation inflicted while it colonized the ...

Overlooking Kinshasa from the seclusion of a presidential garden, the statue of Belgian King Leopold II stares over the Congo River far from the protests and rage targetting colonial figures elsewhere ...

Inside the palatial walls of Belgium’s Africa Museum stand statues of Leopold II – each one a monument to the king whose rule killed as many as 10 million Africans. Standing close by, one visitor said ...

In a jaw-dropping interview, Belgian Prince Laurent, the brother of King Philippe, attempted to defend his colonialist grandfather King Leopold II — who turned the Congo into a slave state — after ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The brother of Belgium's king joined a swelling debate about its past on Friday by saying that King Leopold II, under whose rule millions of Congolese were killed or maimed, could ...