Tag: Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Taken from their mothers in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, decades on a group of mixed-race elderly people are fighting the Belgian state for recognition and reparations.

  • Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has apologised for the kidnapping of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples during colonial rule in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda.

  • Katanga’s forgotten people FRANCE 24 2010-03-16 Marlène Rabaud Arnaud Zajtman Like many mixed-race children in Congo, they were born of a Japanese father who came to work in the mines of Katanga in south-east of the country. Today, they accuse their fathers of wanting to kill them so as not to leave behind any traces when…

  • Footprints of my other 2012 52 minutes Claude Haffner Born to a mixed race couple in the DRC, then Zaire, in the 1970s, Claude Haffner is part Congolese, part French. From her family home in France, Claude Haffner embarks on a journey in search of her African identity. She is of mixed race, born in…