Tag: mercenaries
American Mercenaries Arrested In Haiti, Weapons Seized
AFRICANGLOBE - Haiti's Foreign Minister Bocchit Edmond confirmed Monday that five Americans on the island have been arrested. Local authorities said the Americans are being held on conspiracy charges, but have not been formally charged by Haitian authorities. The foreign minister has not confirmed the conspiracy charges.
Libya Accused of Training Mercenaries to Attack Chad
AFRICANGLOBE - Idriss Deby, the president of Chad, has accused neighbouring Libya of not doing enough to stop Chadian "mercenaries" he says are being trained in western Libya. Speaking on Saturday, Deby said the fighters had set up a training camp in Benghazi from where they could seek to destabilise his country.
Stop Arbitrary Arrests of Africans HRW Tells Libyan Rebels
The de facto authorities in Tripoli, the National Transitional Council (NTC), should stop the arbitrary arrests and abuse of African migrant workers and black Libyans falsely assumed to be mercenaries, Human Rights Watch said today.
