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How Erik Prince is building his niche on the continent

Since announcing his plans to invest in battery metals with much ado in early 2019, the American private security tycoon Erik Prince has been throwing money and staff to the task. His goal to build a portfolio of these speciality [...] (529 words)

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Mining

Taiwan tries to force the DRC to repay a 30-year-old debt

Taiwan's lawyers, who won a US court ruling in 2017 ordering the DRC to pay $57.3m for an unpaid debt dating back to 1991, are now trying to target Congolese assets in the US. [...]

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Chinese miners hire Frontier Services Group for security training in troubled Kivus

The Chinese Enterprises Association in DR Congo hired Frontier Services Group (FSG) for security training in the wake of attacks on Chinese mining firms in North and South Kivu and Ituri provinces. [...]

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Energy 24 expands into MIBA's nickel and chrome deposits

Previously operating in the health sector, the company Energy 24 has decided to explore the nickel and chrome concessions of the state-owned company MIBA in Kasai. [...]

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Erik Prince wins key security contract from Chinese-Congolese joint venture Sicomines

Private security magnate Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group has just landed a major contract to protect the assets of Sicomines. The big Sino-Congolese mines-for-infrastructure joint venture is currently facing strong public criticism, as well as some perimeter security problems. [...]

Erik Prince, head of Frontier Services Group. © MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

DRC FINLAND LUXEMBOURG MAURITIUS Mining Business 01/10/2020

Next stop Finland - mining magnate Jean-Raymond Boulle goes for gold

Still a big mining player in southern Africa and busy with sugarcane in his native Mauritius, Jean-Raymond Boulle, who did well in a wartorn Congo in the late 1990s, has set up a new company to expand his horizons, seemingly into northern Europe. [...]

The founder of Frontier Services Group (FSG) Erik Prince. © JEENAH MOON/Reuters

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DRC EAST AFRICA Mining Business 24/07/2020

Erik Prince turns increasingly towards Africa

Frontier Services Group, the private security company headed by former American special forces officer Erik Prince, has changed strategy. It is reallocating funds destined to fuel its growth in China and Pakistan to the DRC and Africa generally. [...]

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DRC Mining 16/06/2020

Erik Prince wins key security contract from Chinese mining giant CNMC

Newly established in the DRC, the insurance subsidiary of Frontier Services Group, headed by private security magnate Erik Prince has won a contract from Chinese conglomerate CNMC, which has extensive interests in the Copperbelt. [...]

DRC ZIMBABWE Mining 27/04/2020

Ian Dearing manoeuvres to cling on to Asa Resource's gold and diamond assets

With the nickel, gold and diamonds firm in administration, Ian Dearing, the last man standing on the Asa Resource board, is fighting a rearguard action to regain a semblance of control and to hang on to some potentially very lucrative company assets in the DRC. [...]

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Taiwan tries to force the DRC to repay a 30-year-old debt

Chinese miners hire Frontier Services Group for security training in troubled Kivus

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Chinese miners hire Frontier Services Group for security training in troubled Kivus

Energy 24 expands into MIBA's nickel and chrome deposits

Erik Prince wins key security contract from Chinese-Congolese joint venture Sicomines

Next stop Finland - mining magnate Jean-Raymond Boulle goes for gold

Erik Prince turns increasingly towards Africa

Erik Prince wins key security contract from Chinese mining giant CNMC

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Erik Prince drums up business for Frontier Services

Eastern phosphates project: now desalination plant is dropped Free

Olam set on luring Comilog’s manganese to its new terminal

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