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Oil-rich Equatorial Guinea goes to the polls on Sunday in what observers say is a sham election designed to rubber stamp the rule of long-term President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Looking at past election results, this is no idle...
Shareholders set for special dividend payout Heritage Oil is selling its Ugandan oil fields to Italy's Eni for $1.35bn (£811m) in cash, with another $150m to come in either cash or assets. The move signals the departure of...
Simon Mann, the freed British mercenary, allegedly “bribed” his way out of prison in Equatorial Guinea for £400,000, according to one of his co-conspirators. By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent Freed mercenary Simon Mann in...
1. California. 2. Père Lachaise, after whom the cemetery is named. 5. Hispaniola. 6. He was Lord Elgin, of Elgin Marbles notoriety. 7. Mercenary Simon Mann. 8. Time Magazine Person of the Year. 9. The Man Who Broke the Bank at...
I’ve opened a lot of lectures lately – presentations about our Media Cloud research at Berkman – by complaining about the New York Times’s Africa coverage. I cite the fact that Japan tends to average roughly 8-10 times as many...
By Peter Fabricius Foreign Editor Several South Africans, led by a former SA Police Service officer, are working for a Dubai-based security company in Guinea, providing protection and training to the military junta which seized...
Johannesburg — CRAIG* would rather have joined the British army, but is still happy with having served his two-year contract in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). After matric, he joined the Military Skills...
SIMON MANN November 16, 2009 AS MANY as 18 of the 52 Victorian towns listed by the State Government as most at risk of bushfire could be without a designated place of last resort for people trying to escape fires this summer....
Considering the hullabaloo created by the proposed changes in the televising of the crown jewels of sport, a proverb occurs. It is that you can take a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. One of the proposals is that...
'I hit number one on my speed dial. "Mummy?" I breathed expectantly. But that cow Carol was already round there' "Of course I'm thrilled that Simon Mann has been released!" I shrieked in a strangled voice at yet another...
