Surrounded, outgunned, and left without reinforcements—155 Irish UN peacekeepers held their ground for five days against 4,000 Katangese troops. This is the untold story of courage under fire at ...

Over four days in September 1961, Irish troops in the Congo as part of a UN peacekeeping mission held out against overwhelming odds while inflicting heavy causalities on Katangese gendarmerie and ...

Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it ...

Fireworks Next. In any case, Katangese soldiers at a golf course on the outskirts of Elisabethville took the occasion to shoot down an unarmed U.N. helicopter moving overhead. They stoned the six ...

The Katangese gendarmerie (“gends”, as the Irish called them) and a force of Belgian, French and other European and African mercenaries were attacking the Irish compound. Alerted by the quick actions ...

The longtime advocate for Katangese rights recently disappeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His friends fear for his life. On Friday, September 20, Patrick Masengo Kalasa stepped out to ...

Gunshots were heard near Faladie Gendarmerie School starting from 5.30 a.m. (0530GMT), which continued for at least three hours.

A former officer of the Turkish Gendarmerie, Dikec combined with Sevval Ilayda Tarhan to win the silver in the mixed team 10-metre air pistol event on Tuesday.

In 2011, Baloji and Maarten Couttenier, a Tervuren-based historian, revisited the Katangese locations where Charles Lemaire, the Belgian army officer, had conducted his reconnaissance mission ...