News reports and social media posts have been circulating online claiming that Belgium has deployed troops to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... of 6 (!) soldiers is indeed ...

There's information circulating on social media about the presence of Belgian soldiers, and even tanks (sic!), in the Congo to fight the M23 rebels, and indirectly Rwanda. Hard to believe ...

But there was promise of a new dispute. Belgian troops withdrew only to the two big Congo military bases of Kamina and Kitona, balked at leaving the country as Lumumba demanded. Stopping off in ...

Now they were undermining the hapless young soldier ... the U.N. had urged Belgian civilian experts (but not troops) to stay and help rebuild the Congo; now they were issuing strident warnings ...

at the urging of Belgium, on Monday imposed sanctions against Rwandan military and government officials for their involvement in the conflict in Congo. “Belgium has clearly taken sides in a ...

Belgium’s King Philippe (second from left) greets the children of Congo’s former prime minister ... So when dictator Mobutu Sese Seko seized power in a military coup later that year, Western ...

“Congo and the region have a legacy of coups ... Another defendant sentenced on Friday is a Belgian military expert. “A majority of them, they came from the diaspora,” Al Jazeera’s Alain ...

Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Congo have become embroiled in a diplomatic spat after a court in Kinshasa upheld a death sentence Monday for a Belgian-Congolese military expert. The ...

"His Belgian master punished him after casting ... quota of rubber latex that was supposed to be delivered to his soldiers in Congo by each mature individual in areas where there were natural ...

Hirsch said that her clients were taken to a religious congregation in Katende, in Congo ... of soldiers. “After independence, nothing was done for the children,” Hirsch said. Belgium ...

Belgium has denied claims that it has sent troops to engage rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid a diplomatic ... "A Belgian contingent of 6 (!) soldiers is indeed ...