Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries surrender to UN peacekeepers M23 rebels cornered mercenaries and remnants of Congo army after capturing eastern city of Goma Mercenaries were hired to support ...

Jean “Black Jack” Schramme was not your typical soldier of fortune. A Belgian plantation owner turned mercenary commander, Schramme rose to infamy during the Congo Crisis of the 1960s, where he led ...

More than 280 men, alleged to be "Romanian mercenaries" by the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF), have surrendered to the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The "mercenaries" are being ...

The adventure of the Romanian mercenaries from Congo Protection – managed in Goma by Horatiu Potra, a Romanian former member of the French Foreign Legion – came to an end on 29 January, three days ...

Between 2009 and 2017, the Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland case caused a media furore in Norway and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The facts can be summed up in a few lines. On 5 May 2009, ...

The AFC/M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo said on Sunday that the government coalition carried out drone attacks on populated areas in continued violation of a ceasefire agreed in July. Since 12:00 p.m.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, one of the most famous foreign mercenaries to have played a role in Africa's violent transition from colonial rule, has died aged 100. Born in ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in the east ...