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Disturbing reports about the late Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, allegedly hiring South African mercenaries to help him escape from Libya, come as no surprise. South African...
Despite the attempts at a news blackout in Libya, there are increasingly disturbing reports coming out of that country on the use of African mercenaries by the Libyan government. According to these...
On 23 January, the Sunday Times in the UK reported that in the dying days of 2010 the Zimbabwe government clandestinely transferred arms to incument President Laurent Gbagbo’s administration in...
Much of Equatorial Guinea's post-independence politics is synonymous with the name of Theodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Obiang has ruled the West African State with an iron fist since 1979 after...
The recent presidential pardon for convicted South African mercenaries in Equatorial Guinea is unprecedented. While others view this as an insult to justice and the fight against mercenarism in...
Four South African mercenaries and a UK citizen granted pardons for a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea will not be prosecuted, the National Prosecutions Authority (NPA) said on Thursday.
In today's podcast, President Jacob Zuma visits Equatorial Guinea; SADC leaders meet over Zimbabwe crisis; and, the ITUC says that Southern African countries largely violate workers' rights.
South African mercenary Nick du Toit, who has been freed from a notorious Equatorial Guinea jail, has given President Jacob Zuma the credit for his and his accomplices' pardon.
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has named a new cabinet, switching the experienced finance minister into the strategic energy portfolio of the oil-producing West African...
In today's podcast: progress will only be achieved at the current World Trade Organisation talks if all "blocs felt that they had secured some new market access", Zimbabwe continues to attract...
A court in Equatorial Guinea on Monday sentenced British mercenary Simon Mann to 34 years and four months in prison for his confessed role in a failed 2004 coup plot in the oil-producing West...
In today's podcast: ArcelorMittal SA announces another double-digit steel price increase, global arms deliveries fell 8% in 2007 but there is little evidence of a long-term decline in the...
A British mercenary awaiting trial in Equatorial Guinea for leading a failed 2004 coup has said the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was involved in the plot, the public...
CAPE TOWN - The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) insists that Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence came to "incorrect conclusions" in its report on the...
A British mercenary admitted in an interview broadcast on Tuesday he plotted to oust Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004 but the "swashbuckling"...