General elections were held in the Belgian Congo on 22 May 1960, in order to create a government to rule the country following independence as the Republic...

The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...

the Congo (French: République du Congo) was a sovereign state in Central Africa, created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960. From 1960 to...

happened during 1960 in the Belgian Congo. Governor-general – Hendrik Cornelis Belgian Congo History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960 in the Republic...

supposed stability of the Congo under Belgian rule before 1960 and under Mobutu's regime after 1965. In Belgium, allegations of Belgian complicity in the killing...

committed in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. These atrocities...

ceded the territory, which thus became a Belgian colony. Congo achieved independence from Belgium on 30 June 1960 and was immediately confronted by a series...

following elections occurred in 1960. 1960 Cameroonian parliamentary election 1960 Belgian Congo general election 1960 Dahomeyan parliamentary election 1960 Dahomeyan...

international and Belgian outrage and the Belgian government transferred control of the region from Leopold II and established the Belgian Congo in 1908. Following...

Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly the Republic of the Congo and Zaire) since the country's independence in 1960. The current President is Félix...

responsibility for representing Belgian interests in the Congo. After fifty years of Congo's independence, a visit by the Belgian King Albert II was met with...

absolutist rule; the Belgian Parliament annexed the Congo Free State as a colony of Belgium. It became known thereafter as the Belgian Congo. In addition, a...

Direct elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo occur for the Presidency, National Assembly (lower house of the legislature), and provincial...

1960 and was instead merely a token representing a claim on Belgian francs. It did exist, however, as the sole de facto currency in the Belgian Congo...

the Belgian government continued to impose forced labour on the natives, albeit by less obvious methods. The Belgian Congo gained independence in 1960 and...

the Belgian Congo voted for the first time in municipal elections of 1957. The first nationwide election was the 1960 Belgian Congo general election. Decolonization...

involvement of the Belgian Congo (the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) in World War II began with the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940. Despite...

territory of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Prior to the creation of the Congo Free State, the International...

July 1960, soldiers of the garrisons of Léopoldville and Thysville of the Force Publique, the army of the newly independent Republic of the Congo mutinied...

Leopold II of Belgium to further his interests in the Congo. [dubious – discuss] It replaced the Belgian Committee for Studies of the Upper Congo (Comité d'Études...

General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 30 December 2018, to determine a successor to President Joseph Kabila, as well...

Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 election. He was the leader...

government of Belgium as the Belgian Congo. It remained under the command of a Belgian officer corps through to the independence of the colony in 1960. Throughout...

addressed the nation by radio and declared that Belgium would work towards the full independence of the Belgian Congo. In the early 1950s, political emancipation...

territory of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Prior to the creation of the Congo Free State, the International...

religious group at fifty percent. The Congo was colonized by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1885, and known as Belgian Congo until it gained independence. Both...

1947 regional names were adopted. The Belgian Congo became an independent country in 1960, named Republic of the Congo.[citation needed] Under the first constitution...

eventually forced Leopold to relinquish control of the Congo to the Belgian government. The Congo Free State propaganda war (1884–1912) occurred at the height...

give up power, signing it over to Belgium, who renamed it to the Belgian Congo. Up until its independence in 1960, the DRC continued to be subjected...

Congo, officially the Republic of the Congo or Congo Republic, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa...