The News Review:

- How Mann’s men shaped Africa’s wars
- WARDA experts in Sierra Leone to promote NERICA.
- Sierra Leone contracts Commonwealth agriculturist.
- Security firm owner arrested on federal extortion charge

How Mann’s men shaped Africa’s wars
Independent Online – Sep 10, 2004
The Pretoria-based firm closed up shop in 1999 after the post-apartheid government outlawed mercenary work in South Africa. In Sierra Leone, Mann joined another ex-SAS officer Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer, the founder of London-based Sandline International, to put together a small group of 150 to 200 mercenaries to help Ahmad Tejan Kabbah return to power in 1995. In Angola and Sierra Leone, the strategy involved securing a hold on power by seizing mineral and oil resources that could generate revenues needed to finance a war effort. “By all accounts, they were pretty effective and instrumental in both cases,” says Angela McIntyre, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies. “They weren’t going in as a peacekeeping force. They were there to protect assets…
The Pretoria-based firm closed up shop in 1999 after the post-apartheid government outlawed mercenary work in South Africa. In Sierra Leone, Mann joined another ex-SAS officer Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer, the founder of London-based Sandline International, to put together a small group of 150 to 200 mercenaries to help Ahmad Tejan Kabbah return to power in 1995. In Angola and Sierra Leone, the strategy involved securing a hold on power by seizing mineral and oil resources that could generate revenues needed to finance a war effort. “By all accounts, they were pretty effective and instrumental in both cases,” says Angela McIntyre, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies. “They weren’t going in as a peacekeeping force. They were there to protect assets. Sandline International helped the government in Freetown regain control over the diamond-rich Kono district although the foreign force was forced to leave the country a year later under the terms of a ceasefire accord.

WARDA experts in Sierra Leone to promote NERICA.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 10, 2004
WARDA experts in Sierra Leone to promote NERICA. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (September, 2004).

Sierra Leone contracts Commonwealth agriculturist.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 10, 2004
Sierra Leone contracts Commonwealth agriculturist. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (September, 2004).

Security firm owner arrested on federal extortion charge
Macomb Daily – Sep 10, 2004
After Executive Outcomes Panama headed to court in January 2001 to obtain payment, a settlement called for Sierra Leone to pay $23 million in installments over two years. When no payments were received in the following nine months, the company that hired Grunberg notified Sierra Leone government officials that it planned to terminate the settlement. Several hearings were postponed, and Sierra Leone officials eventually produced documents from Executive Outcomes in Mount Clemens that Dipofi was the “true owner” of the debt, court records show. In August 2002, Grunberg received a fax that, in part, stated: “It should be suggested that your non-military background is clouding your senses.