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3 days ago · Led by a Belgian settler named Jean Schramme and including approximately 100 former Katanga gendarmes and about 1,000 Katangese, the mutineers held their ground against the 32,000-man Congolese National Army (Armée Nationale Congolaise; ANC) until November 1967, when the mercenaries crossed the border into Rwanda and surrendered to the local ...
3 days ago · In the Congo’s first national elections, Lumumba’s MNC party had outpolled Kasavubu’s ABAKO and its allies, but neither side could form a parliamentary coalition. As a compromise measure, Kasavubu and Lumumba formed an uneasy partnership with the former as president and the latter as premier.
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2 days ago · Il continente è terra di conflitti, ribellioni e risorse immense da tutelare. Sembra di essere tornati agli anni ’60 quando dozzine di reduci europei trovarono lavoro al servizio di leader locali. Erano i «mastini», nomi famosi come l’irlandese Mike Hoare, il francese Bob Denard, il belga Jean Schramme, detto «il leopardo».
4 days ago · Dans les seconds rôles, les férus d'histoire retrouveront des mercenaires aidés en sous-main par la CIA, comme le Sud-Africain Mike Hoare (Mad Mike) ou le Belge Jean Schramme (Black Jack), le Français Bob Denard étant, lui, déjà "drivé" depuis l’Elysée par Jacques Foccart; mais aussi John F. Kennedy qui court-circuite son ...
1 day ago · Ce serait Jean-Philippe Célestin qui était visé quand des tireurs ont abattu son frère cadet, l'hiver dernier, à Montréal.
2 days ago · Charles XIV John ( Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty.
