Ejected from Cabo Delgado, Lionel Dyck keeps a foothold in Mozambique

摘要

Officially demobilised, Dyck Advisory Group (DAG) personnel did not return to South Africa after the paramilitary company's contract was not renewed in early April. DAG, which provided air support to the Mozambican police's counter-insurgency operations in Cabo Delgado, hopes to be involved again in the fight against the insurgent group whose offensives have forced French oil major Total to declare force majeure on its gas operations in the northern province. In the meantime, DAG founder Lionel Dyck has placed some of his people in Beira, far from the fighting in Cabo Delgado, under the leadership of Hendrik "Henk" Bam. This former British paratrooper, who moved into DAG's core business of tackling poachers and then into counter-insurgency operations, has set up a team in the port city that could, if necessary, carry out ground operations.