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Romanian mercenaries who fought in Goma, Eastern Congo have surrendered. The DRC government allegedly hired private armies to help fend off the M23 who captured the mineral-rich Goma on Monday.
Romanian mercenaries who fought in Goma, Eastern Congo have surrendered. The DRC government allegedly hired private armies to help fend off the M23 who captured the mineral-rich Goma on Monday.
Columns of Romanian mercenaries were seen crossing into Rwanda on Wednesday, as M23 rebels tightened their grip on the Congolese city of Goma. On Tuesday, the Romanian foreign ministry released a press release confirming a group of Romanians contracted by the Democratic Republic of Congo government were trapped in Goma, in the North Kivu province. But on Wednesday local news outlets said some 288 European mercenaries, most of them Romanian, had crossed into Rubavu.
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They also said the private security contractors were hired by well-known Romanian mercenary Horațiu Potra‘s company. After the city was overrun by M23 rebels at the start of the week they had holed themselves up in United Nation bases.