which has become a refuge for former Belgian mercenaries deported from the Congo. Hardened professionals, they are called les affreux—the horrible ones. Under a two-year contract to Tshombe.

Outside the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa ... Primary object was to protest the seven-week-old rebellion of the Congo’s white mercenaries, who were fired by Mobutu and subsequently captured ...

Romanian mercenaries lined up to cross the border into Rwanda in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on January 29 ... Uganda, France, Belgium, and the U.S. on January 28 amid an offensive ...

Congo's Defeated Foreign Mercenaries Head Home With 'Big Relief' By Edwin Waita and Hereward Holland GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the ...

Belgium’s interests in DR Congo extend ... and logistical support,” Gatera explains. ALSO READ: DR Congo: European mercenaries surrender to M23, get safe passage through Rwanda More alarming ...

Lumumba's murder — and the brutal history of Belgian control of the Congo — have been enduring ... with the support of Belgian mercenaries. His body was dissolved in acid and never found.

Belgium's colonisation of the Congo was one of the harshest imposed ... Lumumba was murdered by Congolese separatists and Belgian mercenaries in 1961, and his body dissolved in acid, but the ...

In receiving the "Romanian mercenaries," the RDF asserted that they were "fighting alongside the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC ... France, Belgium, and the U.S ...

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 ...

Romanian mercenaries queue to undergo screening as they are evacuated from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid a conflict between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the ...