The villain of the story, Leopold’s top dog in the Congo, scheming to steal those African diamonds, is Belgian Captain Léon Rom, who promptly kidnaps Tarzan and Jane. And from there the plot ...

Meanwhile Congo's soldiers have never moved away from the role allocated to them by Leopold - as a force to coerce, torment and rape an unarmed civilian population. Chopping hands. As the BBC's ...

Congo: Exit, King of Diamonds. 3 minute read. TIME. October 19, 1962 12:00 AM GMT-4. Katanga’s Moise Tshombe is not the only secessionist to break off a piece of the Congo and call it his own.

Between 1880 and 1920, the Congo lost approximately half of its population. An estimated eight to ten million Africans died as victims of King Leopold's "rubber-terror" International outrage forced ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa. It has vast reserves of copper, diamond and cobalt ore – one of the most sought after minerals in the world ...

London – President Laurent Kabila's reported assassination has thrown a spotlight on the role of conflict diamonds, the "guerrilla's best friend", in fuelling African wars. Congo government officials ...

Belgium's King Leopold II exploited the Belgian Congo with slave labour, ... copper and diamonds, while Leopold even imported some Congolese people to be put on show at a 'human zoo' in Belgium. ...

In addition, by 1914 the growth of plantation rubber, the collapse of world prices, and King Leopold’s wasteful methods of collection had finished the Congo wild-rubber industry.

Between 1885 and 1908, the Belgian King Leopold II personally ruled the Congo Free State, which was also known as the Independent State of the Congo. Because he ruled the state personally, he had ...