A renewed global focus on racism is highlighting a violent colonial history that generated riches for Belgians but death and ... to destroy Belgium, Leopold II's nephew King Albert I erected ...

There is a renewed focus on the European nation's history after the death of George Floyd ... recent weeks and statues of Belgium's colonial leader King Leopold II have been vandalised.

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal colonisation of the Congo inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.