Guns for Hire: Democratic Republic of Congo Gold

BUNIA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - JULY 08: Security guards with the private security company Saracen Uganda Ltd., a company that has links to the infamous private military company Executive Outcomes, joint patrol with members of the Ugandan Military in an effort to protect a Heritage Oil exploration site on Lake Albert, Uganda on July 8, 2005. Africa has long been a place where guns for hire have found work. Multinational corporations are now hiring private security companies and other hired guns to protect their interests throughout conflict zones and dangerous areas. Within these conflict zones these multinational corporations and the private security companies that protect them often operate in an ethical and legal grey zone having to rely on and even provide favors to militias and other UN embargoed groups. (Photo by Matt Moyer/Getty Images)