After Eton and a successful career in the British Army, he became the go-to guy for military coups, he said. The rewards (and risks) were enormous.
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Equatorial Guinea has been rowing with Gabon for decades over three islands in potentially oil-rich waters.
Judges at the top U.N. court have sided with the West African country of Equatorial Guinea in a fight with neighboring Gabon over the ownership of three largely uninhabited oil-rich islands ...
He was arrested in 2004 after being part of a failed coup to overthrow Equatorial Guinea's ruler.
Former SAS officer led a group of 70 who attempted to overthrow Equatorial Guinea's president ...
Old Etonian Simon Mann, who served in the Scots Guards after Sandhurst, was one of a group of 70 mercenaries arrested in Zimbabwe for attempting to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in 2004.
Rwanda, Angola, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, and Lybia are among the countries reportedly holding discussions with the U.S. on the matter.
The Trump administration has mounted an intense diplomatic campaign to convince distant countries to accept migrants who are not their own.