1] In 2004 there was a coup attempt by hired foreign mercenaries to topple President Nguema of the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea; planned and financed by the son of Margaret Thatcher, former UK Prime Minister, Mark Thatcher. The plan was to install a puppet and share the oil bounty
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