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Angola
61
–2,
105
,
263
,
293

civil war
6
–11,
262
–3

diamond industry
13
,
69

and Executive Outcomes
9
–10,
85
–6,
262
–3

and mercenaries
7
,
8
,
9
–10,
59
,
85
–6,
110
,
262
–3

and Moto
62

oil industry
6
–11,
51

and Wonga Coup plot
173
,
194
,
205
,
275

Annobon
45
,
129
,
142

Archer, Jeffrey
170
–71,
296

biography
xii
,
170

and Calil
58
,
170
–71,
203
–4

‘The Coup' (short story)
157
,
170

and ‘J. H. Archer' payment
xii
,
169
–71,
215
,
246

Thatcher and
120
–21,
170

and Wonga Coup attempt
170
–71

Archer, Raymond
179
,
218
,
257

Armenian air crew
107
,
128
,
159
,
160
,
193
,
195
,
239
,
259

arms trade
33
,
61
–2,
69
–70,
102
,
113
,
127
,
146
–7,
152

Asia, demand for oil
226

Asian Trading and Investment Group SAL
106
,
159

Augusto, Abel
71
,
193
–4,
239
,
240

Aznar, Jose Maria
62
,
88
,
139
–40,
143
,
204
,
264
,
266

B

Babangida, Ibrahim
58

Bamako
186

Barbour Griffith and Rogers
270

Bata
107

Bayley, David
112

BBC
237

Benin
7
,
101

see also
Bight of Benin

Bennet, John
45

BG (company)
53

Biafra
26
,
30
,
32
,
35

Bight of Benin, in old rhyme
75
,
78

Bight of Benin Company
see
Wales, Greg

Bikomo, Santos Pascal
45

Bioko (Fernando Po)
19
,
27
–8,
33

Bird, Martin
150
,
162

Biyogo
184

Black Beach (Playa Negra) prison
21
,
40
,
41
,
43
,
193
–6,
237
,
239
–41,
259
–60,
261
,
280
,
283

Black September organisation
27

Blair, Tony
148

Bloody Sunday
15

see also
Northern Ireland

Bond, Alan
161

Bongo, Omar
57

Boonazier, Marthinus (Bones)
x
,
193
,
194
,
239
,
259
–60

Botswana
262

Bourthoumieux, Lucie
71
,
141
,
236
,
280

Brabazon, James
135
,
164

Branch Energy
12

Bravo, Lopez
27

Brazzaville
160
–61

Britain:

arms sales
113

colonial history
see
Africa

and 1973 coup attempt (Equatorial Guinea)
28
–30

court cases against Wonga Coup plotters
215
–16,
237
,
252
,
267
–8,
273

and Wonga Coup plot
92
,
136
,
139
,
175
,
247
,
264
,
268

British South Africa Company
82

British Virgin Islands
105

Bubis
22
,
43
,
44

Buckingham, Tony
6
–11,
13
–14,
59
,
77
,
203
,
267

see also
Executive Outcomes

Buffalo Soldiers
xvi
,
72
,
73
,
90
,
131
,
256

Bujumbura
148

Burrows, Charles
203

see also
Wales, Greg

Burton, Sir Richard (traveller)
24

Bush, George, Senior
247

Bush, George W.
269

Buxton, Thomas Fowell
19

Bwiti cult
23

Byron, George Gordon, Lord
124

C

Calil, Ely (Khalil, Smelly):

and Archer
58
,
170
–71,
203
–4

biography
xii
,
57
–9

Mann and
57
–60,
134
,
207
–8,
287
–8

and Thatcher
120
,
242

and Wonga Coup plot
85
–6,
104
,
106
,
121
,
129
,
135
,
171
,
203
,
204
,
207
–8,
215
,
254
,
271
,
273
,
285
,
286
,
296

Cameroon
160
,
192
,
263
,
293

Canada
99
–100

Canary Islands
27
,
29
,
34
,
94
,
106
,
135
,
159
,
173
–4,
183
–5,
190
–91

cannibalism
23
–4,
45
–6,
60
,
88

Cape Verde
27
,
29

Capricorn Systems
166

Cardoso, Sergio
x
,
69

and Wonga Coup plot
71
,
73
,
126
–7,
173
,
193
,
196
,
197
,
239

Carlse, Harry (Jacobus Hermanus Albertus Carlse; The Enforcer)
ix
,
143
–4

and Wonga Coup plot
95
,
131
,
138
,
143
–4,
145
–6,
157
,
169
,
179
,
181
–2,
187

aftermath
202
,
206
,
233
,
257

Cassidy and Associates
270

Central Asian Logistics GmbH
127
–8

Central Intelligence Organisation (Zimbabwe)
148
,
182
,
255

Chad
52
,
228
,
274

Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
136
,
266

ChevronTexaco
228

Chikurubi prison
201
,
212
,
216
–19,
221
,
233
,
255
–6

HIV/AIDS and sex in
219
,
275

China
127
,
274

and Equatorial Guinea
41
,
52

Chipika, Learnfirst
219

Cicogma, Gianfranco
210
–11

Clark, Margaret Marshall
see
Mann, Margaret Marshall

Clinton, Bill
85
,
127

CMS (oil company)
228

Coetzee, Dries
209
–10

Cogito
68
,
92
,
111
,
242

Collier,
290

Comoros
7
,
76
,
101

Company of Adventurers of London (Guinea Company)
82

Congo, Democratic Republic of (DRC)
7
,
68
,
70
–71,
103
–4,
125
,
131
,
133
,
134
,
142
,
147
,
150
,
203
,
227

Congo, Republic of
160
–61

Congolese rebels
70
–71,
150
–52,
153
,
157
–8,
160
,
165

Costa, Alercio
72
–3

Côte d'Ivoire
142
,
147

coup attempts:

history, requirements and future of
98
–104,
275
,
276

see also
Equatorial Guinea; Wonga Coup

Cranbrook Academy of Art
51

Croatia
271

Cuba
41
,
60

Cyprus
142
,
147

D

Dean, Peter
26

Democratic Republic of Congo
see
Congo, Democratic Republic of

Denard, Bob
7
,
9
,
15
,
35
,
76
,
100
–101,
103
,
275

Denley, Tommy Lynn
98
–9

Diamond Works
13

diamonds
13
,
69
,
70
,
262

Dodson, Robert, Sr
166

Dodson Aviation Inc.
166
–7,
174
,
175

Dogs of War, The see
Forsyth, Frederick

Domingo, Captain J. P.
91

Domingos, Jose
173
,
193
,
239

Dominica
99
–100,
101

Douala
160

Dracula, Victor
ix
,
68
–9

and Wonga Coup plot
126
–7,
257

Drake, Sir Francis
103
,
164

DRC
see
Congo, Democratic Republic of

drugs (illegal)
11
,
45
,
193

du Prez
see
Prez, Louis du

du Toit
see
Toit, Nicolaas du

Dube, Colonel Tshinga
148
,
151
,
187
,
265

E

Eastern Europe
33
,
147
,
159
,
237

Ebano
192

Economist
279

EG
see
Equatorial Guinea

Eleanor Fishing CC
91

Elf-Acquitaine
58

see also
Total

Elizabeth I, Queen
103

Ely
see
Calil, Ely Emergency Networks
113

Enforcer, The
see
Carlse, Harry Equatorial Guinea:

1973 coup attempt
28
–31,
192

2004 uprising and second coup plot
161
–2,
272
–3

agriculture
19
–20,
89
–90,
91

and author
293
–4

and Britain
247
,
293
–4

corruption
51
,
52
,
95
,
221
,
224
–31,
272

economy
19
–20,
50
–51,
226
–31,
272

executions
17
,
21

exiles
20
,
88
–9

fishing industry
89
,
91
,
106
–7

foreign workers in
21
,
192
–3,
226
–7,
240

health, education and public services
19
,
21
,
42
,
52
,
223
,
228
,
272

history
18
–20

human rights and democracy
19
,
20
–22,
42
,
61
,
223
,
240
,
272

life expectancy
42
,
227

oil and gas industry
46
,
49
–51,
52
–4,
95
–6,
178
,
221
,
223
,
224
–31,
263

and Mark Thatcher
246
–7,
273

TV and radio stations
44

under Macias
20
–24,
37
–9,
60

under Obiang
39
–46,
50
,
60
,
62
,
63
,
71
,
88
,
91
,
95
–7,
109
,
140
,
169
,
172
–3,
205
,
221
–2,
224
–6,
259
–61,
263
,
269
–73

and white South Africans
67
,
89
–90,
192

and Wonga Coup plot
163
,
172
–3,
178
,
192
–200,
215
–16,
221
–2,
237
,
246
–7,
275

trials and releases
235
–9,
247
,
259
,
279

Erdos, Alfred
17
–18

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