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They withdrew after Washington threatened to retaliate.<br \/>Prince, a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump and who founded the now defunct private security firm Blackwater, had been hired by the government in Kinshasa to help secure and improve tax revenue collection from Congo&#8217;s vast mineral reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackwater founder Erik Prince deployed a private security force to operate drones and help Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s army secure the strategic city of Uvira against Rwanda-backed rebels, four people briefed on the mission said.The AFC\/M23 rebels briefly seized the city on the border with Burundi in December in a major blow to ongoing U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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