Some of the opinions flying around here are almost as balanced as in the African Aviation forum.
The old Das Air 5X-JOE is still in the hangar at Manston, so unless the old management has managed to get something going the last Das aircraft was through the Middle East last September, the aircraft hasn't moved since then. The Das aircraft were actually quite well maintained and the company did not deserve to get banned as its aircraft were to the same standard as most of the American and European DC10s flying around - that ban was down to incompetence on the part of the EU safety oversight. Avient appear to have drawn the heat for being in the right place at the right time to pick up the pieces that were going begging. I have no personal opinion about their management but anybody who is managing to get a DC10 to make money in the present climate must be doing something right, commercially anyway. They may be cutting corners somewhere, I don't know, they may have some unsavoury connections, I don't know, but then neither do a lot of the other contributors I imagine (but then this is a rumour network). There are many other airlines in Africa and Asia (and probably Europe and the Americas) with equally unsavoury connections and operating practices as those being suggested in this thread, just because they are African doesn't necessarily make them good ... or bad. At least there is a bit of employment there for a few people - how long for though?