Congo is grappling with soaring military costs and declining tax revenues due to an offensive by Rwandan-backed rebels, who ...

Simon Mann turned privilege, training, and raw ambition into one of the most notorious mercenary careers of the modern era.

Joseph Kabila, the ex-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has lashed out at the government of his successor - ...

Nikolai Ashurov, an Israeli commander accused of ordering and taking part in the killing of 15 paramedics, rescue workers and UN staff in Rafah, has surfaced in the DRC Congo as a mercenary ...

Members of the M23 rebel group supervise the exit of mercenary troops in the streets of Goma amid ... The fighting has raised fears of a wider regional war, as DR Congo's neighbours Uganda and Burundi ...

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 ...

Protecting Rubaya, the ex-FDLR fighter said, was the main reason "why Tshisekedi had agreed to pay the Burundian president heavily, it was more like a mercenary ... to DR Congo ALSO READ: M23 ...

In the first weeks of 2025, the rebels and their Rwandan allies launched a lightning offensive, routing Congolese, UN, and mercenary troops around the eastern city of Goma, in the heart of Congo's ...

In parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), communities are gearing up for war or fleeing to safety amid the advance of M23 rebels, who captured the key eastern cities of Goma and ...

The New Mercenaries, The History of the Mercenary from the Congo to the Seychelles. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1985. Myers, Kevin. "Mercenaries are Much Misunderstood Men." Sunday Telegraph, 17 ...

According to historians, King Leopold ran a mercenary force that used murder and ... of one unfortunate country—the Democratic Republic of Congo. The world’s bloodiest conflict since World War II is ...