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An obscure private military company, or group of companies, reportedly linked to the Executive Outcomes network.

According to a DiamondWorks document dated February 1997, the company Lifeguard Management Ltd - which was in April 1996 in an application from Indigo Sky Gems for a loan under the European Union's SYSMIN facility stated to be controlled by Branch Energy Ltd - had been contracted on April 6 1996, by Branch Energy Ltd to provide security services for the Branch Energy Ltd mining properties in the Kono area in Sierra Leone. Lifeguard Security Sierra Leone Limited, "an affiliate of Executive Outcomes" according to the DiamondWorks document, provided the services.[1]
  1. Executive Outcomes and its tangled links, by Werner Menges, The Namibian, 7 July 1998.