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Mozambique
Lionel Dyck's private military, anti-poaching contracts collide

The Dyck Advisory Group's military raids in Cabo Delgado are making it difficult for its counter-poaching partner, the Peace Parks Foundation, to raise funds. [...]

Published on 12/05/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Central Asia Development Group
Cyril Ramaphosa
De Beers Group
Delta Força Segurança
Dyck Advisory Group
Dyck Advisory Group Conservation Trust
EuropeAid
Filipe Nyusi
Forcas Armadas de Defesa de Mocambique
Gaporsul
Jaime Nogueira Pinto
Joao Pereira Coutinho
KfW
Lionel Dyck
Mako Aviation
Mateus Mutemba
Max Dyck
Neill Hobbs
Peace Parks Foundation
Segurança de Moçambique
Ultimate Aviation
Werner Myburgh

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PPF and DAG distribution in the Southern African national parks

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Shaking off an illness that has kept him confined to South Africa for months, the retired colonel Lionel Dyck headed to Mozambique in March to launch an internal probe in response to allegations by Amnesty International.

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Mozambique
Limpopo park provides discreet transit route for Dyck Advisory Group

Lying conveniently on the South African border, Limpopo National Park is a key transit area for former colonel Lionel Dyck's operations in Mozambique. The supply route may be relatively unobtrusive, but is raising hackles in Pretoria.

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Mozambique
Dentec Aerospace targets warplane repair business

Dentec Aerospace, which is based in Grand Central Airport in the Midrand area of South Africa, has expanded into Mozambique with the aim of taking advantage of the fast-growing market for the repair and maintenance of militarised aircraft.

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Cabo Delgado: Dyck Advisory Group's loses one surveillance aircraft after another

The Dyck Advisory Group's light Bat Hawk aircraft that crashed in June is not the first to fall from the skies: the aeronautical operator has lost several planes chartered to clients in Mozambique.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 26.06.2020

Bat Hawk light aircraft of the type used by the Dick Advisory Group in Cabo Delgado.

Spotlight | Libya, Mozambique, South Africa
Aviation service provider Christiaan Durrant casts his shadow over Cabo Delgado

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Multi-sector contractor CADG expands presence in the skies over Cabo Delgado

In late April, defence and engineering service group CADG sent up several of its reconnaissance aircraft over the province of Cabo Delgado, which has become a battleground for private sector operators since the beginnng of the insurrection in 2017.

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On 24 April, the Helix intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft operated by its South African sister company Ultimate Aviation was spotted on the ground at Pemba airport.

Spotlight | Mozambique, South Africa
Pretoria nettled by the actions of military contractors in Cabo Delgado

Filipe Nyusi again called in South African paramilitaries to help curb the rising insecurity in the north of the country much to the irritation of the South African authorities, who Mozambique has also directly asked for help.

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Moscow muscles in as protector of oil firms in Cabo Delgado

Building on from its presence in Central African Republic and Libya, Moscow is determined to create a firm footing in Mozambique, a country that for 20 years was a Soviet outpost. Like in Bangui, the main vector for Russian influence here is military support to local forces working to combat an insurrection that has rocked Cabo Delgado province since October 5, 2017.

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The presidents of Mozambique and Russia, Filipe Nyusi and Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, 22 August 2019.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mozambique
Lionel Dyck's private military, anti-poaching contracts collide

Spotlight | Southern Africa
Peace Parks moves for more military management of its transfrontier national parks

Spotlight | Mozambique, South Africa
Under fire from Amnesty, Dyck Advisory Group stands down its helicopters

Spotlight | Mozambique
Total calls on army to secure Afungi facility site in Cabo Delgado

Mozambique
Limpopo park provides discreet transit route for Dyck Advisory Group

Mozambique
Dentec Aerospace targets warplane repair business

Mozambique, South Africa
Cabo Delgado: Dyck Advisory Group's loses one surveillance aircraft after another

Spotlight | Libya, Mozambique, South Africa
Aviation service provider Christiaan Durrant casts his shadow over Cabo Delgado

Mozambique
Multi-sector contractor CADG expands presence in the skies over Cabo Delgado

Spotlight | Mozambique, South Africa
Pretoria nettled by the actions of military contractors in Cabo Delgado

In Focus | Mozambique, Russia
Moscow muscles in as protector of oil firms in Cabo Delgado

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Erik Prince makes up for army shortcomings