People who are starving are more willing to give in to anything and everything to survive and it’s difficult for them to stand up for their rights.

Wilson's firm continued signing up warlords and enriching their family members in exchange for lucrative leases on rebel-held territory. In 2010 it signed up Sudanese General Gabriel Tanginya as an "adviser" and leased a huge area of his native Jonglei state in what was called "Africa's largest land deal."

Tanginya, who has been accused of instigating violence against civilians in southern Sudan, was apparently a very welcome addition to the firm. Jarch declared that General Tanginya “will give the Company much needed expertise in Jonglei and expand its expertise in Greater Upper Nile."

By the time there were national elections in 2011, the newly minted vice president of South Sudan was Riek Machar, who was also an adviser to Jarch. Machar had been a rebel leader and later apologized for his role in the Bor Massacre, in which thousands of people had been killed.

As South Sudan struggles with factional fighting following its independence in 2011, Jarch Capital-linked warlords are in the thick of the fight. General Peter Gadet, a former member of the Jarch Capital advisory board, is the target of international sanctions.

According to the BBC, the international sanctions are in response to "reports of atrocities committed in the first half of 2014." The cluster of donors and advisers to the Clintons who rely on warlords and corrupt dictators is not confined to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, or Sudan.

It extends further south on the continent and includes a longtime Clinton benefactor with close ties to the corrupt regime in Nigeria. Nigeria is widely recognized as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It has also been one of the most lucrative countries for the Clintons. Over the course of more than fifteen years, they have collected large speaking fees, campaign-related funds, and large contributions for the Clinton Foundation from those who have made fortunes by working in the corrupt world of Nigerian politics.

In his first eight years on the global lecture circuit, Bill had never been paid to speak in Nigeria. But once Hillary was appointed secretary of state, he booked two of his top three highest-paid speeches ever by traveling to Nigeria, pulling in a whopping $700,000 each.

The two speeches were allegedly underwritten by Nigerian media mogul Nduka Obaigbena, who owns Nigeria's ThisDay newspaper. Obaigbena, a solidly built man "with a taste for bespoke Lanvin suits," professes "to live modestly and discreetly," all the while maintaining a home in Lagos, a large estate in Nigeria's Delta State, and a sleek penthouse at the Ritz Carlton in Washington, DC.

Obaigbena casts himself as a rebel fighting Nigeria's corrupt political establishment. But he's known more for his lavish parties and concerts, which have brought Beyoncé and Jay-Z, as well as Bill Clinton, to Nigeria at enormous expense. Often these lavish events come at a price for ordinary Nigerians. When Clinton appeared at a ThisDay award event in 2013, he handed out checks to schoolteachers as a reward for their work.

But while Clinton collected his fee, the teachers saw their checks from ThisDay bounce. Obaigbena is close to the Nigerian government of President Goodluck Jonathan, to whom he serves as an unofficial adviser.

Jonathan has been accused of corruption by numerous international organizations. (As the Associated Press puts it, Obaigbena has "close ties to major business leaders and those in the ruling People's Democratic Party.")

Hillary's State Department said that Jonathan's tenure is marked by “massive, widespread, and pervasive corruption" at all levels of the Nigerian government.

And yet, as with Ethiopia, Hillary granted the country a waiver for corruption so it could continue to receive US assistance. Back in 2006, when Jonathan was the governor of Bayelsa State, he authorized the transfer of $1 million from the government's poverty alleviation fund to Obaigbena's organization so he could bring Beyoncé to Nigeria.

One longtime Clinton benefactor is businessman Gilbert Chagoury, who has also been implicated in corruption and bribery in Nigeria. Born in Lagos, Chagoury comes from a Lebanese family and has dual citizenship in Lebanon and the United Kingdom.

He built a financial empire in Nigeria with the help of General Sani Abacha, a Nigerian dictator whose five-year tenure was "known for its corruption and brutality."

Chagoury served as a "front for the general's extensive business empire." And the two had a business partner in their activities: Marc Rich, the fugitive oil and commodities broker.

Chagoury apparently worked with Rich to sop up oil assets in Nigeria and sell them on the oil market for the benefit of General Abacha and his associates. The Nigerian media declared in 1999 that the "Gilbert Chagoury-Marc Rich alliance remains a formidable foe."

Abacha and Chagoury met when the future dictator was a young army officer. After Abacha carried out a coup in 1993, Chagoury received prized oil concessions and government construction contracts. In exchange, Chagoury helped the general siphon off money and get it out of the country.

Abacha's rule was highly criticized in Washington, where hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign assistance were disappearing into European bank accounts.

Glamorous front people go down for corruption and then new front people professing to be populists take their place until the same thing happens to them as well. That’s our global system.

During his rule, Abacha funneled billions of dollars to foreign bank accounts. Nigeria's lead anti-corruption prosecutor at the time, Nuhu Ribadu, put Chagoury at the center of the scheme. “You couldn't investigate corruption without looking at Chagoury," he said. According to Ribadu, Chagoury helped steer more than $4 billion into bank accounts in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and the Isle of Jersey.

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