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.

a hero of the anti-colonial struggle and short-lived first prime minister of the independent Congo. Lumumba was murdered by Congolese separatists and Belgian mercenaries in 1961 and his body ...

Only three weeks ago, French police detained seven mercenary recruits as they boarded a plane in Nice for service in the Congo. And Belgium is about to pass a law providing strict penalties for ...

In receiving the "Romanian mercenaries," the RDF asserted that they were "fighting alongside the Armed Forces of the ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS/DAKAR, June 8 (Reuters) - Belgium's King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to apologise for ...

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 ...

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 ...