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.

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.

The day after the mutiny, Katanga seceded under the leadership of Moïse Tshombe, an independence fighter and prime minister of the Congo-Kinshasa province from July 1964 to October 1965.

A French paratrooper in Algeria, 1958, left, wearing the same kind of fatigues that white mercenaries had on near the crash site of the plane carrying UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, shown here ...

Some older Congolese remember the use of mercenaries in the 1960s, including a group led by "Mad Mike" Hoare, who supported the failed attempt of the mineral-rich southern state of Katanga to ...

Gilbert Bourgeaud (Bob Denard), mercenary: born Bordeaux 7 April 1929; six times married (eight children); died Paris 13 October 2007. 'Colonel' Bob Denard was the archetype of the old school of ...

Some of Katanga’s mercenaries are adventurers; some are extremist former French army officers, disillusioned with De Gaulle’s Algerian policy; and some are white Katangese, appalled by the U.N ...