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The aim of the Act was to stop mercenary activities by the dual actions of: preventing direct participation as a combatant in armed conflict for private gain including the training, recruitment and use of mercenaries; and, requiring approval of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee for offering of military assistance overseas. [20]
Aundu asked Kengo to set up a plan to hire mercenaries, which was also approved by President Mobutu Sese Seko. From that point on the use of mercenaries was allowed. [1] Mobutu apparently sought the help of Executive Outcomes, a private military company which had already worked in both the Angolan and Sierra Leone Civil Wars. He however refused ...
Sandline had subcontracted most of its crew for the Bougainville mission through Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary provider. The first mercenaries arrived on an Air Niugini flight from Singapore on 7 February 1997. After a week, a total of 44 had arrived, 8 from the UK, 5 from Australia and the remainder from South Africa.
Mali's army together with suspected mercenaries from the shadowy Russian group Wagner have committed summary executions, lootings, forced disappearances and other abuses, a leading human rights ...
The Russian mercenary group known as Wagner is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry out raids and drone strikes that have killed scores of civilians, including many ...
Executive Order 14183, titled "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness", is an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on January 27, 2025. It revokes Executive Order 14004, which allowed transgender people to serve in the military, stating that its policies reinforce military standards related to physical and mental fitness, unit cohesion, and mission effectiveness.
Russia has used private mercenaries from the Kremlin's shadowy private military to reinforce its depleted frontline, British intelligence said Monday. In its daily intelligence update, the U.K.'s ...
The book details the rise of Blackwater USA, a private military company, and the growth of security contracting in the Iraq War and the War on Terrorism.In the book, Scahill contends that Blackwater exists as a mercenary force, and argues that Blackwater's rise is a consequence of the demobilization of the US military following the Cold War and its overextension in Iraq and Afghanistan.