The Congo Conference confirms Congo as the private property of Leopold II of Belgium and regulates the colonization of Africa.The Niger and Congo rivers will be opened for shipping and the ban on the slave trade will be set internationally.
26/02/1885
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Wasn’t this done at the Berlin Conference? Leopold was given proprietorship of the Congo under that condition that he cannot block any other country’s exploitation of the Congo.