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Ali Bongo met with Maurice Tempelsman in New York. His press is eager to present this meeting as the evidence of investors rushing to Gabon. Really? Who is Maurice Tempelsman?
In an article published in Politique Internationale N ° 91 - 2001, entitled "Les Diamants de la Guerre", Economist Olivier Vallée, and Journalist François Misser, present Maurice Tempelsman as an American diamond- originally from Belgium, having made a fortune mainly in Africa.
His adventure in the diamond industry began in the early 1960s, when the head of the CIA in Léopoldville, Lawrence Devlin, introduced Maurice Tempelsman to Mobutu. He did partner with Mobutu in diamond mining.
It was also thanks to people like Tempelsman that the Unita of Savimbi, whose bases were located in Mobutu’s Zaire, built a financial and military power from the diamond trade. This financial power enabled Unita to wage a merciless war on the central government of Luanda. A civil war that killed nearly a millio…
Ali Bongo met with Maurice Tempelsman in New York. His press is eager to present this meeting as the evidence of investors rushing to Gabon. Really? Who is Maurice Tempelsman?
In an article published in Politique Internationale N ° 91 - 2001, entitled "Les Diamants de la Guerre", Economist Olivier Vallée, and Journalist François Misser, present Maurice Tempelsman as an American diamond- originally from Belgium, having made a fortune mainly in Africa.
His adventure in the diamond industry began in the early 1960s, when the head of the CIA in Léopoldville, Lawrence Devlin, introduced Maurice Tempelsman to Mobutu. He did partner with Mobutu in diamond mining.
It was also thanks to people like Tempelsman that the Unita of Savimbi, whose bases were located in Mobutu’s Zaire, built a financial and military power from the diamond trade. This financial power enabled Unita to wage a merciless war on the central government of Luanda. A civil war that killed nearly a millio…
