The Great Lakes Region has endured ... the colonial wounds left by Belgium. The divisions between communities, the arbitrary borders that disregarded ethnic and cultural ties, and the economic ...

Belgium may appear to outsiders as a good example of ethnic power sharing ... in Wallonia — and also the region’s minister-president — Di Rupo, 55, is the heavyweight of Francophone politics.

long-disadvantaged ethnic groups for self-determination within a Europe of regions. Scots, Catalans, Basques and Corsicans are eagerly following events in Belgium, partly out of curiosity over how ...

in an attempt to destabilize both Rwanda and the region. “Beyond Belgium’s destructive historical role in fueling the ethnic ...

Belgium is dispatching a ... more violence between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups, which has spawned decades of mayhem in Africa’s Great Lakes region including the 1994 genocide of Rwandan ...

A ban on kosher slaughter by the Flanders region of Belgium will go into effect January 1, after legislation prohibiting animal slaughter without pre-stunning was passed in the region’s ...