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DR Congo's failed gamble on Romanian mercenaries
BBC ^ | Feb 1 | Ian Wafula

Posted on 02/01/2025 1:53:50 AM PST by RandFan

It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Their surrender following a rebel assault on the eastern city of Goma has also shattered the dreams of those who signed up for the job to earn big money.

The BBC has seen contracts that show that these hired soldiers were being paid around $5,000 (£4,000) a month, while regular military recruits get around $100, or sometimes go unpaid.

The Romanians were contracted to help the army fight the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who say they are fighting to protect the rights of DR Congo's minority ethnic Tutsis.

When the offensive on Goma started on Sunday night, the Romanians were forced to take refuge at a UN peacekeeping base.

"The M23 rebels were supported by troops and state-of-the-art military equipment from Rwanda and managed to reach our positions around the city of Goma," Constantin Timofti, described as a co-ordinator for the group, told Romanian TVR channel on Monday.

"The national army gave up fighting and we were forced to withdraw."

Romania's foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Țărnea told the BBC that "complex" negotiations followed, which saw the M23 hand over the Romanian fighters - whom he described as private employees of the DR Congo government on an army training mission - to Rwanda.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; congo; demrepubofcongo; goma; hutu; m23; march23movement; romania; rwanda; tutsi; wakanda
These mercenaries are fairly lucky but once again another civil war brewing .
1 posted on 02/01/2025 1:53:50 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Don’t those Congo folks know it’s Black history month?


2 posted on 02/01/2025 3:17:26 AM PST by Daveinyork ( )
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To: RandFan

The mercenaries are SUPER-LUCKY if they get out of Congo alive at this point.

“In fact, Asociatia RALF may also work across Africa - its contract stipulated that it had various “operational locations”, including “Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Guinea”

Not a good record...most (maybe all) of the above countries have now liberated themselves from their Globalist masters. It started with Niger, but keeps spreading. If DR Congo falls, no more Teslas (sorry TG).


3 posted on 02/01/2025 3:36:30 AM PST by BobL
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To: RandFan

Sub-Saharan Africa hiring Europeans as military labor?

Color me skeptical, though someone surely hired them.


4 posted on 02/01/2025 3:47:45 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: RandFan

White mercenaries aren’t what they used to be in Africa, it used to be that a small number of them were significant.


5 posted on 02/01/2025 3:56:02 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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...state-of-the-art military equipment from Rwanda...

From Rwanda?
They fared better when the Africans used spears.


6 posted on 02/01/2025 4:55:16 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: Farmerbob

They faired better when they were tougher men and better led, the communists, dictators and socialists were not using spears.


7 posted on 02/01/2025 4:59:19 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: RandFan

I thought this thread was about me.
-Doctor Congo


8 posted on 02/01/2025 5:51:01 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: RandFan

The Romanian war record makes the French look like Master Warriors.


9 posted on 02/01/2025 7:08:09 AM PST by JusPasenThru (We are Free to be Americans Again.)
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To: Doctor Congo


10 posted on 02/01/2025 8:31:00 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: 9YearLurker

Whoever runs the uranium mine(s)


11 posted on 02/01/2025 8:59:46 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ansel12

12 posted on 02/01/2025 9:00:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

A movie about a man who loved to kill communists and rescued thousands of whites, he even handed defeats to Che Guevara.


13 posted on 02/01/2025 9:56:50 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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You can bet they could never make that movie today.


14 posted on 02/01/2025 10:31:28 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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