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Belgo Congo Role

Our story, our mandate.

Belgo Congo Role grew out of one conviction: the relationship between Belgium and the Congo deserves better than a debate that restarts on every anniversary.

The Mont des Arts gardens in Brussels at dusk
The founding act being signed around an oak table beneath tall windows

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Our story

The coalition was formed in 2026 by a group of Belgian, Congolese and dual-national citizens. None of them represented a government. All of them shared the same observation: the two countries talk to each other through press releases, and joint projects die for want of a structure to carry them.

Belgo Congo Role is that structure. It gathers those who want to work, whatever their reading of the past.

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Our mission

Strengthening the relationship between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo through dialogue, innovation, reconciliation and shared prosperity.

The mission breaks down into eight fields of action, each with programmes and named leads. The detail sits in the founding charter.

Two delegations seated facing each other along a council table

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Our values

The archive reading room, its colonnade and bands of daylight
Independence
The coalition belongs to no government, no party and no denomination.
Historical honesty
We rewrite nothing, and we do not accuse anyone in place of historians.
Reciprocity
A programme that benefits only one of the two countries does not enter our portfolio.
Transparency
Accounts, governance and results published every year.

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Founding charter

The charter sets out the coalition's purpose, its bodies, its decision-making and its financial rules. It will be published as a PDF and binding on every member.

To supplyDocument to supply: signed founding charter

The bound charter resting on a dark table, two pens beside it

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Governance

A Board of Directors, an executive directorate, a general secretariat, a treasury and an international advisory council. Country representatives cover Belgium, D.R. Congo, the United States, Europe and Africa.