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Spotlight | Libya, Mozambique, South Africa
Cabo Delgado: Hendrik Bam, the linchpin of Dyck Advisory Group's operations

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“Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare”

Mozambique

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

The development of Cabo Delgado province's vast gas resources has brought with it the emergence of an armed insurgency, one that is yet to be clearly defined but is already impinging on Total and ExxonMobil's operations there. As the conflict worsens, President Filipe Nyusi has been prompted to seek foreign help. [...]

Ex-British paratrooper Hendrik Bam is playing a role in the counter-insurrection being led by the Dyck Advisory Group in northern Mozambique. He was also involved in Lancaster 6's moves in Libya last year. [...]

Published on 21/08/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Mozambique

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

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Christiaan Durrant
Dyck Advisory Group
Dyck Advisory Group Conservation Trust
Fayez Sarraj
Hendrik Bam
Henk Bam
Khalifa Haftar
Lancaster 6
Lionel Dyck
Rudi Koekemoer
South African National Defence Force
State Security Agency
Steve Lodge

South Africa
Riyadh and Abu Dhabi eye South African army's artillery stocks

Saudi and UAE authorities are negotiating with the South African army with a view to purchasing second-hand Denel howitzers. The Ritam Holdings subsidiary, TFM Defence, is facilitating the deal with Riyadh by utilising the networks of several ex-Denel directors.

Subscribers only Defence 17.02.2023

Libya, South Africa
How Haftar resurrected his three Super Pumas

Delivered in 2019 by Lancaster 6, the firm owned by the Australian pilot Christiaan Durrant, the three Super Pumas of Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army had been confined for two years to their hangars before miraculously emerging last month to take their maiden flight.

Subscribers only Business 01.07.2021

Libyan National Army Super Puma helicopters during the parade on 28 May 2021.

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

Mandela's conservationist NGO is snuggling up to the Dyck Advisory Group, a mine-clearing and anti-poaching company that has also been working to support African police forces. PPF and DAG are looking to expand their work together throughout the southern countries.

Subscribers only Business 14.06.2021

PPF and DAG distribution in the Southern African national parks

Mozambique
Ejected from Cabo Delgado, Lionel Dyck keeps a foothold in Mozambique

Mozambique has not renewed its contract with the Dyck Advisory Group, which provided air support to the Mozambican police. However, its boss Lionel Dyck is keeping his men on standby in the vast network of Mozambican parks, and also in Beira.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 03.05.2021

Mozambique
Cabo Delgado: Dyck Advisory Group heading towards mid-flight crash

The presence of several execs from private security group STTEP has done little to boost morale among the Dyck Advisory Group's staff.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 18.11.2020

Mozambique
Lionel Dyck's private army struggles in Cabo Delgado despite Panzer Logistics and STTEP reinforcements

President Filipe Nyusi is unhappy with the approach to containing the insurrection in Cabo Delgado proposed by Dyck Advisory Group and its subcontractors, the arms trader Panzer Logistics and the private security firm STTEP International.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 02.11.2020

Mozambique
Dyck Advisory Group deploys on ground to counter Cabo Delgado insurrection

To coordinate ground offensives more effectively with the aerial bombardments being conducted by his aircraft against the self-proclaimed jihadist insurrection, Colonel Lionel Dyck is overseeing training for the Mozambican police.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 28.08.2020

Spotlight | Mozambique, South Africa
South African army stands by to go into Cabo Delgado

The South African army is preparing its troops to go into Mozambique even though Filipe Nyusi has not yet asked Cyril Ramaphosa for military back-up.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 29.07.2020

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.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 22.07.2020

Mozambique, South Africa
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

Helicopters currently stationed in Libya could soon been deployed to Mozambique's oil-rich province where a jihadist insurrection continues to smoulder. The aircraft were reportedly supplied by Durrant's firm Lancaster 6.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 05.06.2020

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.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 22.04.2020

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

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Ejected from Cabo Delgado, Lionel Dyck keeps a foothold in Mozambique

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Cabo Delgado: Dyck Advisory Group heading towards mid-flight crash

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Lionel Dyck's private army struggles in Cabo Delgado despite Panzer Logistics and STTEP reinforcements

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Dyck Advisory Group deploys on ground to counter Cabo Delgado insurrection

Spotlight | Mozambique, South Africa
South African army stands by to go into Cabo Delgado

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Limpopo park provides discreet transit route for Dyck Advisory Group

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

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Mozambique Cabo Delgado: Dyck Advisory Group heading towards mid-flight crash

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Ivory Coast
French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Spotlight | Libya, Mozambique, South Africa
Cabo Delgado: Hendrik Bam, the linchpin of Dyck Advisory Group's operations

South Africa
Riyadh and Abu Dhabi eye South African army's artillery stocks

Libya, South Africa
How Haftar resurrected his three Super Pumas

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

Mozambique
Ejected from Cabo Delgado, Lionel Dyck keeps a foothold in Mozambique

Mozambique
Cabo Delgado: Dyck Advisory Group heading towards mid-flight crash

Mozambique
Lionel Dyck's private army struggles in Cabo Delgado despite Panzer Logistics and STTEP reinforcements

Mozambique
Dyck Advisory Group deploys on ground to counter Cabo Delgado insurrection

Spotlight | Mozambique, South Africa
South African army stands by to go into Cabo Delgado

Mozambique
Limpopo park provides discreet transit route for Dyck Advisory Group

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

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