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 ...

In the Congo, they earned the nickname Les Affreux ... In the Nigerian civil war, a mercenary of uncertain nationality named Johnny (“Kamikaze”) Brown pilots the battered B-26 bomber owned ...

"When they arrived, everyone referred to them as Russian," Fiston Mahamba, co-founder of disinformation group Check Congo, told the BBC. "I think this was linked to the Russian mercenary group ...

Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly ...

In the last couple of weeks, as the AFC/M23 has laid down a long trail of victories against the Democratic Republic of Congo forces, the FARDC, along with their Burundian, Southern African ...

Che was unimpressed with Congo revolutionaries In 1965 ... Kamanyola's residents fear war at any moment The mercenary Colonel "Mad Mike" Hoare, who had been contracted by the American-influenced ...

KINSHASA, CONGO - Colonial rule, rapacious dictatorship and civil war have so ravaged Congo's economy and society that the streets of its cities swarm with homeless young people who numb their ...

Justice Minister Constant Mutamba told reporters in the capital Kinshasa on Wednesday evening that Congo has amassed clear evidence implicating the former president in “war crimes, crimes ...

From Cold War dynamics to legislative debates, U.S. foreign policy toward Africa has been shaped by complex historical, political, and institutional factors. In his memoir From the Congo to Capitol ...