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10.10.26 - 08:00
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Blackwater Bloodied: Erik Prince′s Congo Force Ambushed, Ex-UFC Star Tim Kennedy Shot In The Fight For The World′s Cobalt (ZeroHedge)
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Blackwater Bloodied: Erik Prince's Congo Force Ambushed, Ex-UFC Star Tim Kennedy Shot In The Fight For The World's Cobalt
When Erik Prince signed on with Kinshasa last year, the brief was mostly about spreadsheets: help Congo's finance ministry actually collect taxes on its minerals. But on September 17, it turned into a firefight.
According to a Reuters exclusive published Friday, a team working for Prince's Vectus Global was ambushed in South Kivu in eastern Congo, leaving roughly 20 people killed and wounded, among them at least seven Congolese and a former New Zealand special forces soldier. The wounded include Tim Kennedy, the retired Green Beret, ex-UFC fighter and podcaster with millions of social media followers (and a fight résumé in a sport the president is rather fond of, as Reuters helpfully notes), who took three gunshot wounds to the leg and is recovering at Walter Reed.
Regular readers know we have been tracking Prince's slow migration from Kinshasa's tax office to the f...
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07.10.26 - 07:30
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Kenya Sees First Ebola Case Imported From Congo (Bloomberg)
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Health authorities in Kenya confirmed an Ebola infection in a traveler who recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The person fell ill in Congo a month ago and traveled by road to Uganda. The patient arrived by plane in Nairobi on Oct. 3 and died Monday. This marks Kenya's first imported case linked to the outbreak in central Africa. Bloomberg's Janice Kew reports. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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