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The prosecutor's office in Paris, France, closes a criminal complaint case by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) against technology company Apple for alleged money laundering and deceptive business practices related to the purchase of minerals in the DRC from armed militias. It is one of the DRC's two lawsuits, with another in Belgium.
2025-02-27

Rwanda suspends a humanitarian aid pact with Belgium after Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot criticized Rwanda's military support for the M23 rebel movement in Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2025-02-19

An agreement is reached among five Belgian political parties to form a new coalition government to be headed by future prime minister Bart De Wever.
2025-01-31

The World Health Organization reports the first sexual transmission case of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a Belgium resident who traveled there.
2023-11-23

A soldier kills 13 people, including ten children, during a mass shooting at his son's funeral in Nyamamba, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2023-07-23

The CODECO and the Alliance for the Liberation of the Congo militia groups attack two villages in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 14 civilians.
2021-10-29

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets with President Joseph Kabila of DR Congo in Kinshasa, praising him for his "respect for the constitution" by agreeing to step down and not take part in the upcoming December 2018 Congolese general election.
2018-08-12

Belgian Minister of Transportation Jacqueline Galant resigns in the wake of the recent bombings that shook Brussels last March. Galant resigned amid accusations her ministry ignored EU criticism of security at Belgium's airports.
2016-04-15

Police in France, Belgium and Switzerland arrest more than two dozen people in connection with the Brussels Airport diamond heist.
2013-05-8

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights claims the Congo government troops raped 121 women between June 11 and 13 then pillaged their villages.
2011-07-1