The war is not meant to be won; it is meant to be continuous. - George Orwell, 1984 On July 8th, a corruption complaint was filed with Belgian federal prosecutor Ann Fransen, targeting nine members of ...

He was executed on January 17, 1961, aged just 35, in the southern region of Katanga, with the support of Belgian mercenaries.

Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office hopes that a trial may finally take place ...

He initially fought alongside other foreign mercenaries supporting Moïse Tshombe’s attempt to secede the mineral-rich province of Katanga from the newly independent Congo.

Joseph-Desiré Mobutu, 32 years the president of Zaire (Congo), and Moise Tshombe, the first and only president of the secessionist state of Katanga, were two of the most active members of the ...

International Operation Name: Opération des Nations unies au Congo International Operation Dates: 14 July 1960 – 30 June 1964 Mandating Organization: United Nations Region Name: Africa Location: Congo ...

To protect mining interests, Katanga’s leader, Moïse Tshombe, declared independence with the support of Belgian troops and mercenaries.

Few sites in Africa yielded as large a supply of copper ore as the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to its scarcity, the "red" metal was associated with kings, leadership ...

SADAT organized the Syrian Arab mercenaries that did most of the fighting for Turkey in Syria, Libya, and the Caucasus backing Azerbaijan against Armenia. In 2014 President Putin of Russia asked ...

The Path of Exile 3.26 challenge league, Mercenaries of Trarthus, gets a mercenary renown system ahead of the free Steam ARPG’s new season.

To nobody's surprise, the hit Webtoon action thriller Teenage Mercenary by YC and Rakyeon is being developed as an anime series. If anything, we're surprised it took so long. The Korean manhwa ...

Russian court, on Tuesday, sentenced a Colombian man to 28 years in prison for fighting in the Ukrainian Army against Moscow as a “mercenary”, including in Russia’s Kursk region.