Ruanda-Urundi
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Ruanda-Urundi, later Rwanda-Burundi, was a mandate and later trust territory ruled by Belgium between 1916 and 1962.
A Belgian Congo stamp overprinted for the Belgian Occupied East African Territories in 1916
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Wisdom at Butare (formerly Astrida) in Ruanda. Catholicism expanded rapidly under the Belgian mandate.
Ruandan labour migrants at the Kisanga copper mine in Katanga (Belgian Congo) in c. 1930
Monument in Bujumbura commemorating Burundi's independence on 1 July 1962
Belgian Congo
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The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. It is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ruanda-Urundi
…mandate and later trust territory ruled by Belgium between 1916 and 1962. Once part of German East Africa, the region was occupied by troops from the Belgian Congo during the East African campaign in World War I. It was administered by Belgium under military occupation from 1916 to 1922. It was subsequently awarded…
Leopold II, King of the Belgians and de facto owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908
Children mutilated during King Leopold II's rule
Former residence of the Governor-General of the Belgian Congo (1908–1923) located in Boma
On the left hand side, the former Ministry of the Colonies, adjacent to the Constitutional Court, Brussels