Young men lured by high salaries and Russian citizenship to enlist for a year are now trapped on front lines of war ...

Dead bodies lie on the streets of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as heavy fighting continues between Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, and the DRC forces supported by international ...

Rebels backed by Rwanda captured more towns in eastern Congo on Wednesday as they moved beyond the key city of Goma in an ...

attempts by British and South African mercenaries to intervene, the solidarity of other nations in Angola’s fight against neo-colonial invaders, and along civil war. However, Angola’s story is ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, tens of thousands of Cubans fought in Angola alongside Russia in a proxy war against the US and its allies. These days, Russia is Cuba's main creditor. Last year Moscow sent ...

Rwandan-backed March 23 (M23) rebels swept into Goma, capital of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu ...

Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo's escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo's ...

The conflict comes amid rising global tensions after Donald Trump’s election, especially between Washington and Beijing, over ...

But the end of the Cold War in the last decade of the twentieth century brought about a resurgence in mercenary activity ... military operations in countries like the Yemen, the Congo and Angola.

In Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe the liberation elite only ... All of this bears comparison with the way Russian mercenaries have moved in on a number of West African states and, in return for ...