Nobody should ask me to put on a uniform to go into some strange country in the heart of Africa to fire high-calibre machine ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic -- Like many ... incursion on to Russian territory since World War II. It is the first confirmed case of a CAR mercenary killed in Kursk-region fighting since ...

Back in June 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin was probably the most feared and famous mercenary ... of gold from Africa in the past two years, which is likely to have helped fund its war in Ukraine ...

So he joined Russia's military fighting Ukraine in exchange for $4,200. Then his family in the Central African Republic got a text in Russian: "Hello. Derrick is dead." ...

During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in Africa to secure British control of colonial territories. These included the: Ashanti Wars in West Africa. Matabele Wars in South Africa.

There, he met my mother and married her.” Chris said once the war was over, Hoare’s military life ended, and he resettled in South Africa. “My mother’s parents had settled in Durban ...

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent.