Investigations into the aborted Equatorial Guinea coup d etat have begun to unveil the hand feeding Africa’s “dogs of war”, with recent revelations sucking high profile British figures and global security companies into the controversy.

The plot, which has since emerged to have been conceived by a coterie of global oil magnates, sought to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo overnight and replace him with exiled opposition leader Mr Severo Moto in almost customary coup style.

Its been a while since I just blogged. There are many changes I have noticed.-While email has dealt a blow to snail mail and sent many a mail-man home, the emergence of other faster and more intimate forms of communication seems to be slowly eating away at the number of words that eventually make it [...]