Coup in Africa

On October 9, Jose Olo Obongo, attorney general of Equatorial Guinea, announced to file an extradition request with the Lebanese authorities for three businessmen who we shall call EC, KF, and HM. The trio, all wealthy Lebanese, are suspected to be part of what is rapidly unravelling into an international scandal, stretching across continents and involving some of the world’s most high-profile personalities. To insiders, it has become known as the “time share coup,” linking over a dozen multi-millionaires from Lebanon, South Africa and Britain, who have allegedly chipped in to finance a group of mercenaries led by a British ex-SAS officer Simon Mann to topple Teodoro Obiang Nguema, president of Equatorial Guinea, the oil rich nation that has become known as the  “Kuwait of Africa.” The plot could have been lifted from the pages of The Dogs of War, replete as it is with secret agents, front companies, mercenaries,