Belgium King expresses ‘deepest’ regrets’ for abuses in DR Congo.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1317 EAT on Thursday 9th June 2022. Philippe is the first Belgian official to express regret for atrocities inflicted on the Congolese, but he is yet to apologise. Belgium’s King Philippe has reaffirmed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s colonial-era abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but…