Tagged: Belgium

Mojisola Salaudeen

Belgium Appoints First Female Prime Minister

Sophie Wilmés has been appointed as the head of Belgium’s next caretaker government, making her the first woman to be Prime Minister of the country. She replaces Charles Michel, under whose caretaker government she served as Budget Minister. Michel stepped aside to prepare for his new role as President of the European Council, which he […]

Staff Writer

Belgium Elects First Black Mayor, Vincent Kompany’s Father

Belgian voters have recently elected the first black mayor in the nation’s history, a man originally from the huge swathe of central Africa that Belgium brutalised for generations. Pierre Kompany, 71, who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo as a refugee in 1975, will be sworn in before the end of the year as the […]