Trafulhices internacionais com o petróleo

A private company claiming to have bought oil licences from three governments in exile is looking for investors. Several prominent secessionists sit on its advisory board. Kilimanjaro Capital is not the first company to try selling mineral rights in territories claimed by secessionist movements but it must be one of the most bizarre. It claims to have bought these rights for an undisclosed sum from the 'governments in exile' in Cabinda, the Bakassi Peninsula of Cameroon and south-eastern Nigeria. In reality, all these territories are firmly under the political and military control of the governments of Angola, Cameroon (whose rights to Bakassi have been confirmed by the International Court of Justice at the Hague) and Nigeria respectively. Incorporated in Belize and quoted on the European-based GXG stock exchange, Kilimanjaro has been promoting itself in London through Lionsgate Communications, a public relations outfit. The fund emerged late last year brandishing what it calls 'Future Contingent Licences' with the 'governments in exile' of Cabinda, Southern Cameroons and Biafra. None of these organisations has a realistic prospect of winning power in the near future. Africa Confidential