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🔥From the UN to Mercenaries What Holds the DRC Together? 🏹 Journalists report that personnel from Vectus Global, a security company owned by Erik Prince, founder of the PMC Blackwater, participated in the government’s recapture of the city of Uvira, abandoned by AFC/M23 after Washington’s protests. For the founder of the notorious PMC, the DRC was more of an honorary retirement, where he could grow his cabbages in the mostly peaceful South of the country. In early 2025, he secured a $700 million contract with the Congolese government to help secure and tax the DRC’s mineral resources, particularly in the copper-rich Katanga province. 🚙 But the rebels’ advance southward and the capture of Uvira apparently pushed the DRC to seek more active assistance from Prince. During the Uvira operation, Vectus Global personnel reportedly provided intelligence and assisted with artillery targeting—far beyond their original mine security duties. When Katanga province nearly seceded from the DRC in the 1960s, it was thedecisive actions of a UN mission — originally deployed just to prevent war — that ultimately crushed the Katangan rebellion and reunited the country. Today, the UN and international institutions are in a coma, and Prince’s mercenaries restoring order in Congo reveal just how far the DRC—and the world—have come in the last 60 years. ➡️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow