Belgium gambles on Congo’s President Tshisekedi

Bar­bara Moens is a trade reporter at POLITICO Europe. KINSHASA — The Bel­gian roy­als’ vis­it to Con­go, which end­ed ear­li­er this week, was an attempt to grap­ple with Belgium’s gris­ly colo­nial past. But as a con­se­quence, Brus­sels also end­ed up embrac­ing — and aid­ing — Con­golese Pres­i­dent Félix Tshiseke­di, who came to pow­er in an election…

Belgian King Regrets Colonial ‘Humiliation’ in Landmark Congo Trip

Kin­shasa, Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of the Con­go —  King Philippe of Bel­gium, in a his­toric vis­it to Con­go, said on Wednes­day that his coun­try’s rule over the vast cen­tral African coun­try had inflict­ed pain and humil­i­a­tion through a mix­ture of “pater­nal­ism, dis­crim­i­na­tion and racism.”  In a speech out­side Con­go’s par­lia­ment, Philippe ampli­fied remorse he first voiced two years…

The George Floyd Matter — Local Issue, Global Consequences

The recent trag­ic death of George Floyd, anoth­er black vic­tim of police bru­tal­i­ty in Amer­i­ca, shook the world. Although occur­ring amidst arguably the dead­liest pan­dem­ic in mod­ern his­to­ry, the coro­n­avirus, news of his death stirred up a lot of emo­tions across the globe. These emo­tions led to protests through­out all 50 states in Amer­i­ca, and even…