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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A band of Simbas lay in ambush along the road leading into Poko, a small missionary town in the rebel re doubt of the upper Congo. Through “the jungle telephone,” an advancing column of white ...

When Stanleyville fell last November, the white mercenaries who had fought the Congolese rebels began to fall apart themselves. They were getting little money, weapons or encouragement from Premier ...

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 ...