Belgium

Belgium’s prime minister vowed to combat antisemitism after a pre-dawn explosion damaged a synagogue in the eastern city of Liege on Monday, as federal prosecutors who handle organized crime and terrorism took charge of the investigation. No injuries were reported. Police said the blast occurred around 4 a.m. local time (3 a.m. Irish time) in front of the synagogue, blowing out windows in buildings across the street. Officers quickly established a security perimeter around the site. Authorities described the incident as…

Belgian Authorities Arrest Leaders Linked to Cameroon War Crimes Belgian prosecutors have announced the arrest of three individuals as part of a probe into possible crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Cameroon due to the country's secessionist rebellion. The arrests underscore the expanding international efforts to address human rights violations associated with the conflict. The suspects are believed to be leaders of the Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF), a militia advocating for the independence of…

On Monday, France bounced back from a sluggish start to defeat neighboring Belgium 2-0. Randal Kolo Muani’s close-range effort and Ousmane Dembele’s precise left-footed strike earned them their first points in the Nations League. Showing determination, France shook up their squad with eight changes, including resting Kylian Mbappe, following a 3-1 loss to Italy in Paris just last Friday in their initial League A Group 2 match. Initially, the visitors pressed hard, but the French took control after settling into the…

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Paul Rusesabagina, in distinction to Paul Kagame, who had acquired Belgian citizenship, is at the moment on trial for terrorism in Kigali. The verdict in his trial is predicted on September 20. He was going through life in jail. Known for saving the lives of a thousand folks through the 1994 Tutsi genocide, Paul Rusesabagina-…

Belgium is taking a major step forward in returning items looted during colonial times. The authorities have just presented a new legal framework. The Belgians no longer want items that have been forcibly acquired, resulting in the return of thousands of works by the Democratic Republic of Congo. From our correspondent in…

The Belgian government yesterday (Tuesday) presented a roadmap for listing the objects illegally acquired in the Congo from 1885 to 1960. A global approach to preparing potential refunds without waiting for a formal request from the Congolese authorities. Belgium currently has in its federal collections about 85,000 objects from…

Laurent Gbagbo's departure to Abidjan will take place on Thursday 17 June. In Brussels, where the former Ivorian president had resided since his release from the ICC in February 2019, his supporters fought for his release and then for his return to the country. They have been waiting a long time for this moment. "The release…

Since his participation in Documenta 14, Sammy Baloji has become an important figure in contemporary art. AuxBeaux-Arts de Paris, his exhibition, "K (C) in progress, fragments of intertwined dialogues", ping-pong between personal experiences and official archives often forgotten or hidden to tell us otherwise the relationship between K (C) Ongolese and Westerners . With this 42-year-old plastic artist, born in Lubumbashi, who now swings…

A few days before the deadline, neither Brussels nor Kinshasa can provide further information on the terms of this refund. In this context, some twenty personalities who are very involved in this issue, such as the historian Elikia M'Bokolo, the filmmaker Raoul Peck or even the researcher Ludo de Witte, have just published a column entitled "La Belgique va-t-elle se bli get rid of Lumumbas remains in silence and shame? " All these doubts about the dates, as we see, show that it was not prepared in…