In the darkest days of World War I, about the only consolation that fell to the Belgians was the capture in Africa of two small and scenically beautiful German territories on the eastern border of ...

In Geneva last week, the U.N. Trusteeship Council took up the case of Ruanda-Urundi’s 1,000,000 sleek, lyre-horned cattle, which were doing much too well for the good of the land’s 3,800,000 ...

A critical essay on Belgian colonial policy and on the steps that should be taken to prepare the way for independence of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.

This article originally stated that King Kigeli V was born in 1936 in the-then kingdom of Ruanda-Urundi. Ruanda-Urundi was actually a Belgium colonial mandate, not a kingdom.

Belgium also controlled the then Ruanda-Urundi, or today’s Rwanda and Burundi, where hundreds, if not thousands of bi-racial children were also taken.

Ruanda-Urundi. I did not come to that knowledge from political science. It was from my sociology class as a fresh undergraduate student at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. In those days ...

Though the Ruanda-Urundi territory was under the same colonial administration with a resident general, each country had its own local administration topped by the King as Head of state.

These included Namirembe, Ankole-Kigezi, Rwenzori, Ruanda-Urundi and West Buganda. Early in 1961 before the inauguration, another three dioceses were created from the Upper Nile diocese.

One man’s personal journey to Belgium Milliex says he was brought over to Belgium at the age of 15 from Ruanda-Urundi. “We were seven brothers and sisters.

Though the Ruanda-Urundi territory was under the same colonial administration with a resident general, each country had its own local administration topped by the King as Head of state.