News Source: Financial Times
| about 1 month ago
There was the crafty Arab, the swashbuckling old Etonian, a supporting cast of unscrupulous English toffs and a chorus of South African guns for hire. The drama would have been incomplete without a ruthless African: Equatorial Guinea’s dictator for...
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 month ago
But a book deal is likely to be Mann's biggest earner, with a newspaper serialisation split between a broadsheet and a tabloid Sunday newspaper. "It is a huge story – not just in this country but around the world," said Clifford. "But at the heart...
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 month ago
Documents detailing Sir Mark Thatcher's alleged involvement in the botched coup in Equatorial Guinea are among evidence being examined by Scotland Yard. The counter-terrorism command has yet to interview Thatcher or the businessman Ely Calil, who...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
Despite Mann’s claim that Sir Mark was a “main financier” of the plot to overthrow the Government of the oil-rich state in 2004, the son of the former Prime Minister denies any part in it. However, Mann’s release and return to Britain makes...
News Source: I Africa
| about 1 month ago
Addressing a gathering of African traditional leaders in honour of Madiba, Zuma said he had been at a press conference with Nguema on Wednesday night when a journalist asked why the mercenaries had been released. A student of Nelson Mandela "I'm one...
News Source: News 24
| about 1 month ago
Four South Africans pardoned by Equatorial Guinea for a failed coup in 2004 will not face local criminal charges when they return home, the Justice Ministry said on Thursday. "These people have been arrested, tried, convicted and served a term for...