The most troublesome enemy of Congo President Joseph Mobutu is Moise Tshombe, 47, the wily pro-Western politician who ran copper-rich Katanga as a secessionist state in the early 1960s, later served ...

Wherever they have operated in the Congo, they are known as “the white giants.” But for all their fierce reputation, Colonel Jean (“Black Jack”) Schramme and his band of white mercenaries are ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, one of the most famous foreign mercenaries to have played a role in Africa's violent transition from colonial rule, has died aged 100. Born in ...

An investigation by the Romanian ministry of defence has found that hundreds of active-duty soldiers and reservists worked in DR Congo as mercenaries, European media reports said. In the war with M23 ...

Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, one of the world's best-known mercenaries, has died at the age of 100, his family has confirmed. A former accountant, Hoare gained fame -- and inspired a movie -- for leading ...

More than 280 men, alleged to be "Romanian mercenaries" by the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF), have surrendered to the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The "mercenaries" are being ...

BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - Bob Denard, the French soldier-of-fortune whose near mythical involvement in African wars since the 1960s made him one of the world's most famous mercenaries, has died at ...