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 ...

A long-controversial statue of former Belgian King Leopold II has been taken down after it was set on fire last week during global unrest over the police-custody death of George Floyd, according to a ...

A statue of former Belgian King Leopold II was removed by officials in the city of Antwerp on Tuesday after Black Lives Matter protesters set it on fire. The statue depicts Leopold, whose reign ran ...

Belgium on Tuesday dismantled the statue of King Leopold II, the former monarch held responsible for the deaths of millions of Africans, as the country’s current king expressed his “deepest regrets” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke, the British artist, will ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s ...

Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium's King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite the ...

When it comes to ruthless colonialism and racism, few historical figures are more notorious than Leopold II, the Belgian king who held Congo as his personal property and may have been responsible for ...