Simon Mann's African Coup: Black Beach plot
'Dirty Game for Oil' shows the geopolitical game in Equatorial Guinea played by the United States and China for oil, at the expense of the African population. Equatorial Guinea has an oil supply that world powers would like to get their hands on. The small West African country has the fastest growing economy in the world, is notorious for corruption and is led by a tyrant known for eating the testicles of executed prisoners. Against this background, the battleground of the first truly significant conflict of the 21st century is unfolding: the war for raw materials between China and the West. The battle begins in 2004 when a group of mercenaries led by Britain's Simon Mann is arrested in Zimbabwe. The President of Equatorial Guinea, Obiang, accuses Mann of plotting a coup d'état to seize land and oil. When Mann is sentenced to 34 years in the dreaded Black Beach prison, he claims to be a small cog in a Western plot to take control of Equatorial Guinea's oil reserves.