Belgian Congo
Britishnoun
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He went on to test a candidate polio vaccine in countries including Poland, Yugoslavia, Switzerland and the Belgian Congo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
In the former Belgian Congo, Simon Kimbangu is believed to have miraculously healed a sick woman in 1921, marking the early beginnings of the Kimbanguist church.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly removed from their families in the colonial-era Belgian Congo.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2024
Henri Lopes was born on Sept. 12, 1937, in what was then Léopoldville, later Kinshasa, the capital of what was then the Belgian Congo.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Actually, he had it fairly well advanced when he met Amaranta Úrsula, except that it was not for Macondo but for the Belgian Congo, where his family had investments in palm oil.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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