Masks make a statement. About who you are — and your views of the pandemic. That's true in countries from the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The government of Congo ...

Philippe earlier offered a traditional mask of the Suku people to Congo's national museum as an "indefinite loan". The mask has been held for decades by Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa.

By Ruth Maclean and Elian Peltier DAKAR, Senegal — The king of Belgium on Wednesday handed over a large wooden mask to the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of thousands of ...

Philippe on Wednesday handed back to Congolese authorities a five-foot-tall Kakungu mask, which had been used in ceremonies by the Suku people in Congo’s southwest. The object was included in an ...

Whenever a Belgian king takes an interest in the Congo, history looms large. In the late 19th century King Leopold II turned the territory into a giant slave plantation, murdering, raping and ...

Pierre Matisse, New York (inv. no. 343), acquired on consignment from the above John P. Anderson, Red Wing, Minnesota, acquired from the above on April 27, 1935 Thence by descent to the present owner ...

Philippe also offered a traditional mask of the Suku people to Congo’s national museum as an “indefinite loan.” The mask has been held for decades by Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa.

During a visit to DR Congo, Belgium's King Philippe decorated a WWII veteran and returned a Congolese mask to a museum in Kinshasa. His six-day trip is aimed at healing the wounds of Belgium's ...

KINSHASA -Belgium's King Philippe returned a traditional mask to Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday on his first visit to the former colony, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to ...

Humanitarian workers in hazmat suits and teenagers in flip-flops and dirty masks tended to the dead amid ... U.N. peacekeeping operation in eastern Congo. The fighting between M23, a rebel group ...

Philippe earlier offered a traditional mask of the Suku people to Congo’s national museum as an “indefinite loan.” The mask has been held for decades by Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. KINSHASA — Belgium’s King Philippe returned a traditional mask to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday as a goodwill gesture during his first visit ...