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The New Times on MSNMakenga: It’s unacceptable that European mercenaries came to kill Congolese peopleSultani Makenga, the military leader of M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo, has said it was “unacceptable” that the government hired European mercenaries in the ongoing conflict that pitted the Congolese ...
ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...
The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.
African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...
With Congo-wide elections promised during the next ... A column of French-speaking mercenaries led by Major Siegfried Müller, an ex-Wehrmacht sergeant who wears a German Iron Cross, was neatly ...
Ever since the Congo became independent, foreign forces have been present. From Jadotville to Goma, the foreign forces have taken many guises - peacekeepers, mercenaries, rebel armies and ...
and European mercenaries as further destabilizing factors. Rwamucyo also raised concerns over Kinshasa's increasing militarization, leading to a lawless environment in eastern DR Congo.
It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their surrender following a rebel assault on the ...
Horatiu Potra is a Romanian citizen who until recently managed a private military company in Congo. Late last year, he was arrested for allegedly planning to instigate unrest in Romania.
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