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The biggest mining companies are having major battles with syndicates who incite locals to disrupt operations - an extortion "mafia".

A threatening letter, a derailed train, blocked roads, burnt vehicles, workers locked up. That's what some of the world's biggest mining companies say they're battling in South Africa: Extortion.



Stakeholders say the industry is under attack.

“The procurement mafia mobilizes the community for their own devices," said Paul Dunne, chief executive officer of Northam Platinum Holdings

In anticipation of new legislation that will increase the royalties payable by mining companies to local communities, the OCCRP takes a deep dive into conditions underground

With a budget that represents a minuscule fraction of U.S. defense spending, we managed to do something the United States hadn’t throughout the Cold War: win a war.

The National Archives move towards a 20-year-rule mean that many records from the early New Labour years are now available. That includes episodes like the 1998 Arms to Africa Affair when a British mercenary outfit, Tim Spicers Sandline International, sent...

The sovereign state emerged in Europe as a new and strong political entity with the centralized monarchies of England, Spain, France, and Portugal.

They are charged with war crimes in Ukraine, derided by the Kyiv Independent journalist Ilya Ponomarenko as a ‘bloodthirsty swarm of violent criminals’. In Africa, they stand accused of multiple human rights abuses, of which the massacre of 300 villagers in Moura in central Mali in late Mar...

The practice of using mercenaries has been there for centuries before now. There were mercinaries  in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries.