Sixty-six years on: The promise of DRC independence remains unfulfilled

Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It was Thursday, June 30, 1960, when Belgian and Congolese dignitaries gathered at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa, then known as Leopoldville, for a ceremony marking the end of more than seven decades of colonial rule.

On that day, King Baudouin I formally declared the independence of the Democratic R...