New frontier for Erik Prince in South Sudan


Issue 294 - 13 Feb 2015 | 4 minute read

Hong-Kong registered Frontier Services Group (FSG) is carrying out logistics work in support of government-controlled oilfields in Upper Nile State under a $23.3m contract with the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining. Revenues from the continued operation of the fields are crucial to the government’s ability to fight opponents led by former vice-president Riek Machar.FSG’s board chairman is Erik Prince, the founder and former chief executive of Blackwater, a security company that carried out military operations on behalf of the US government in Iraq.

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