THE WONGA COUP - Adam Roberts
the British mercenary plot to seize oil billions in Africa
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In March 2004 Nick Du Toit confessed to 'the Wonga Coup' - an attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. This is the story of how the coup was set up and why it failed. On 7 March 2004, Zimbabwean police impounded a plane which flew in from South Africa with 64 alleged mercenaries on board. The group, led by Nick Du Toit and former SAS member Simon Mann, were planning a coup in Equatorial Guinea. Within a few days of the failed takeover, Du Toit appeared on TV and admitted everything, almost certainly after torture. Investigators soon found that the plot was funded not by oil tycoons but by celebrity investors. Several names were put forward, including Sir Mark Thatcher and a "J. H. Archer". In November 2004 Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, admitted that his government knew about the plot three months before it took place. The target of the coup was Obiang Nguema, the president of Equatorial Guinea and one of the last relics of old-fashioned tyranny in Africa. But the plotters were not ...
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33, ADAM ROBERTS,2006, PROFILE BOOKS, PAPERBACK, ENEGELSE TAAL,304 PAG.,ISBN 978 1 86197 934 6, - THE WONGA COUP
