A RISKY BUSINES – REBELS, RISKS AND RIFLES – SECURITY CONTRACTING IN EAST AFRICA
Yours truly…My Asset Protection team (me, Ferdi Acosta, and Bijay Tschering) – We collected the gold product from five individual gold mines (Kahama Mining, Placer Dome, Golden Pride, and so on) located in remote locations of the northern Mara region of Tanzania (Birharamulo, Geita, Gokona, etc), and moved it by light aircraft to the International Airport in Dar es SalaamOff to work on a task (at my house in Dar es Salaam).Simon Falkner at the rear at his desk in our first VSS office in Juba (with me and two of the lads trying to repair a filing cabinet!)Rian (l) and Matt (r) of VSS, having a giggle on the Nimule Road, South Sudan In Juba, South Sudan, with VSS (a Saladin Group asset).In Wau, Western Bhar es Gazahl, South Sudan.Instructing new VSS recruits on the live firing ranges at the SPLA Officer Training Academy, South SudanSPLA soldiers in South SudanAkole cattle in a Dinka villageSPLA soldiers in South SudanOn airstrip overwatch, in El Kuran, in the desert of the Ogaden disputed region, EthiopiaDinka girls pumping water at a boreholeAs Country Risk Manager for an NGO (PSI) in Afex River Camp, Juba, South SudanAfter I gave First Aid to this lady, who had collapsed with heat exhaustion in Juba, we got her into an ambulance and she survived (that’s me in the bald wig!).The ‘office’ in El Kuran, The Ogaden, EthiopiaDelivering daily food to a small group of lepers living rough in Juba, 2006A gathering of wounded SPLA veterans (Dinka tribe) in Aweil, South SudanMy car is stopped by National Security officers and Government of South Sudan soldiersA woman and her baby in Marial BaaiThis Russian T54 tank was left abandoned after the war, lying on the Nimule road, South SudanArmy wrecks left over from the war, abandoned along the River Nile (beyond the tree line)WFP warehouses in AweilA Dinka tribal danceUN Humanitarian flight, in South SudanDinka women and youngstersUN WFP Humanitarian Air Services aircraftA village in AweilA ‘baraza’ – a gathering of elders and villagers under the shade of a tree in AweilRebels from across the border are also known to attack and kill tourists.Border clashes with the DRC – rough justice
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