WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Leopold II (French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, Dutch: Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.

Detailed explanation-2: -Despite periodic uprisings and unrest, Mobutu ruled the Congo (renamed Zaire in 1971) until the mid-1990s. Viewed as mercurial and occasionally irrational, Mobutu nonetheless proved to be a staunch ally against Communist encroachment in Africa.

Detailed explanation-3: -Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign King of the Congo Free State (1885-1908), decided to take that step, after the loans granted him by the Belgian State and the international campaign led by Edmund Dene Morel and the Congo Reform Association, among others.