Blackwater was founded by Erik Prince  a businessman and former US Navy Seal officer  who has been reported in the region recently...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     A former foreign policy advisor to former President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign  Schmitz was an executive with the Blackwater private military contractor (now called Academi) of Erik Prince...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 64 No 20 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
	     We hear that former director of the Blackwater private military company  Erik Prince continues to press for the go-ahead from Kinshasa to deploy into North Kivu hundreds of Latin American mercenaries who once fought in Abu Dhabi's wars in Yemen...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 64 No 19 | 
            - RUSSIA
- AFRICA
	     This is what many private military companies have been doing over the past decade  following the example of the United States' former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince...
	 
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            Vol 63 No 16 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
	     At one point  CGR counted Lui Zhigang  a manager of Erik Prince's former company Frontier Services Group  among its shareholders...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      MBZ's links to the White House have been assisted by a complex network of relationships  notably with Erik Prince  founder of the private security contractor Blackwater which became notorious in Iraq...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     In the past he has been a strong advocate for the UAE and signed deals with an Erik Prince-controlled security firm based in Abu Dhabi (AC Vol 59 No 6  Mogadishu fires broadside at UAE)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 59 No 6 | 
            - SOUTH SUDAN
	     Prince of JubaFSG's Chairman is Erik Prince  who founded the US-based military contractor Blackwater  best known for its operations in Iraq (AC Vol 54 No 13  New investors  armed and dangerous)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Recent reports say that a company controlled by Erik Prince  who supplies private military contractors to conflict areas and has worked for the UAE  is in control of Barawe port  in South West State  one of the member states in the UAE's camp...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     That the government is still pursuing the fiction of the viability of the companies is evidenced by the announcement last month that the notorious founder of security company Blackwater  Erik Prince  who now runs the Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group  is to form a joint venture with the tuna-fishing company Ematum...