[66] Julie Walker, “Hersovs and Menells are in no hurry to yield control of Anglovaal,” Sunday Times.
[67] Evelyn Groenink, “Arms deal: Who got $1bn in pay-offs?” Mail & Guardian, January 12, 2007.
[68] Teal Exploration & Mining website.
[69] Press Release: Kenya-Uganda Oil Products Pipeline, Kenya-Uganda Joint Co-coordinating Commission for Extension of Oil Pipeline, August 17, 2005,; see also: Energem web site.
[70] François Misser and Olivier Vallée, “Des matières premières toujours convoitées. Les nouveaux acteurs du secteur minier Africain,” Le Monde Diplomatique, May 1998, p.24-25; also Wayne Madsen, Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa, 1993-1999, Mellon Press, 1999.
[71] Diamond Fields International Management
[72] ‘Inculpations à la Belgolaise’, Le Libre Belgique, 4 June 2004.
[73] Private interview, Kinshasa, DRC, April 2007.
[74] Norm Dixon, “Congo Massacre: Australian mining company's managers indicted,” Green Left Review, November 4, 2006.
[75] His name is known, but he threatened to track down and break the author’s legs if he is revealed.
[76] See: Barry Sergeant, “NIKANOR’s Quandry: Meet Dan the Man, King of the Congo,” MoneyWeb, 4 April 2007; “Congo Kinshasa: After the Election" Africa Confidential, Vol. 47, No. 23, 17 Nov. 2006; and United Nations Security Council Report to the Secretary General, S/2003/1027, 23 October 2003.
[77] George Forrest International
[78] Personal investigation, Ndola, Zambia copperbelt mines, 2000.
[79] http://www.nikanor.co.uk/default.asp?page=15
[80] These are: the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); Federal Foreign Office; Federal Ministry of Finance; and Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor. Since 1998 the Supervisory Board Chairman has been State Secretary Erich Stather from the BMZ.
[81] Karen Hayes and Richard Burge, Coltan Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: How tantalum-using industries can commit to the reconstruction of the DRC, Fauna & Flora Int’l, 2003.
