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03 Nov 2011
 
 
Fugitive Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and the South African Mercenaries
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
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...
 
 
01 Mar 2011
 
The Use of Mercenaries in Libya A Serious Indictment Against the African Union
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
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...
 
 
01 Feb 2011
 
Birds of a Feather: is Zimbabwe Supplying Arms to the Gbagbo Regime?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
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...
 
 
27 Nov 2009
 
Pre-election Report: Equatorial Guinea
REPORT
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...
 
 
18 Nov 2009
 
To Forgive Mercenaries in the Spirit of Madiba
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
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...
 
 
06 Nov 2009
 
Mercenaries freed in Equatorial Guinea will not be charged
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
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.
 
 
05 Nov 2009
 
 
 
Daily podcast - November 5, 2009
PODCAST
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.
 
 
04 Nov 2009
 
Zuma freed us, says mercenary
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
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.
 
 
16 Jul 2008
 
New energy minister in revamped Equatorial Guinea cabinet
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
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...
 
 
08 Jul 2008
 
 
 
Daily podcast – July 8, 2008
Multimedia
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...
 
 
Briton jailed for 34 years for Equatorial Guinea coup plot
AFRICA
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...
 
 
31 Mar 2008
 
 
 
Daily podcast - March 31, 2008
Multimedia
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...
 
 
Mann fingers Thatcher in Equatorial Guinea plot
INTERNATIONAL
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...
 
 
13 Mar 2008
 
News this week
Newsletter - News this Week
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...
 
 
12 Mar 2008
 
Briton admits Equatorial Guinea coup plot
INTERNATIONAL
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"...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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