During the Congo Crisis (1960-1964), several hundred Norwegian and Swedish soldiers were sent to the Congo as UN peacekeepers. They were pioneers of the UN peacekeeping forces, were sent on dangerous ...
“A botched independence swiftly followed by army mutinies and attempted secession by two renegade provinces, egged on by a colonial power. A charismatic black leader who comes to a sticky end, aged ...
Nostalgia is rising in Congo for Mobutu Sese Seko — the kleptocratic strongman as a new museum exhibit glorifying him draws ...
The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men. Among them is the former Wehrmacht officer Siegfried ...
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Critically acclaimed Irish war film now streaming on Netflix called 'even better than Apocalypse Now'
The Siege of Jadotville, which was first released in 2016, is based on the true story of the 1961 siege of a 150-strong Irish UN battalion in the Congo ...
TWO years ago, few would have dreamed that the Belgian Congo would be granted independence in 1960. Indeed, even last year, when the proAfrican minister for the Congo, Van Hemelrijk, resigned, it ...
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