Equatorial Guinea

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Equatorial Guinea: African Leaders protest UNESCO Prize for President

Equatorial Guinea: African Leaders protest UNESCO Prize for President

Renowned African elites have written to UNESCO to cancel a prize named for the president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo who took...
Untangling Central Africa for business

Untangling Central Africa for business

As the proper role of government continue to debated in much of the free world, Africans, and in particular Central Africans can only...
Mugabe, Zenawi, Bashir, Afwerki, Mubarak, Biya… World’s worst despots list

Mugabe, Zenawi, Bashir, Afwerki, Mubarak, Biya… World’s worst despots list

A United States based think tank, Foreign Policy/Fund for Peace has ranked President Mugabe as the second worse despots in the world after...
Mixed reactions to Africa Cup of Nations draw

Mixed reactions to Africa Cup of Nations draw

Africa's prestigious football tournament's 2012 draw conducted last Saturday in DR Congo southern city of Lubumbashi has drawn interesting reactions. The 2012 Africa Cup of...
Ghana-Equatorial Guinea: Petrol deals between a democracy and a kleptocracy?

Ghana-Equatorial Guinea: Petrol deals between a democracy and a kleptocracy?

President of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, recently held bilateral talks with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea. And according to the...
Equatorial Guinea: Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s property

Equatorial Guinea: Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s property

Although definite results were not expected until December 7, the Equatoguinean Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that interim results, given earlier, were almost final. And...
Top European figures accused of fuelling African crises to rake in fortunes

Top European figures accused of fuelling African crises to rake in fortunes

Simon Mann has accused Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, of an Equatoguinean coup plot in 2004. Last week,...
Paris: New step in “ill-gotten gains” scandal involving 3 African leaders

Paris: New step in “ill-gotten gains” scandal involving 3 African leaders

The Board of Inquiry at the Paris Court of Appeal will issue its decision on whether to open a criminal investigation against three African...
Gabon: André Mba sought coup support from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon…

Gabon: André Mba sought coup support from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon…

Francis Sala Ngouah Beaud, a journalist and former member of Andre Mba Obame’s (who came in second in the August 30 election) campaign team,...
3 African Presidents to pay for their ill-gotten wealth

3 African Presidents to pay for their ill-gotten wealth

The doyen of judges in the financial hub of Paris, Françoise Desset, has ordered a judicial inquiry into the luxury property bought by three...
Circus made in Equatorial Guinea: Coup or Criminal act?

Circus made in Equatorial Guinea: Coup or Criminal act?

Equatorial Guinean officials have thwarted earlier reports of a coup d'état in the oil rich West African state as they accuse the Movement for...
S. Africa and E. Guinea fight for Nigeria Falcons’ lost title

S. Africa and E. Guinea fight for Nigeria Falcons’ lost title

The Super Falcons of Nigerian who until now were known as the African football queens for winning every continental female football tournament have been...
Migrant workers outnumber Equatorial Guineans

Migrant workers outnumber Equatorial Guineans

Latest statistics reveal that more than 300,000 people in Equitorial Guinea are from outside the country, with the majority of the migrants arriving illegally...
Oil rich Equitorial Guinea : Corrupt and abysmally poor

Oil rich Equitorial Guinea : Corrupt and abysmally poor

Despite the wells of oil that abound in Equatorial Guinea, majority of its population still live in abject poverty, a common phenomena with oil-rich...
International Court of Justice to solve border dispute

International Court of Justice to solve border dispute

Gabon and Equatorial Guinea said on Tuesday that they had made substantial progress towards referring their border dispute to the International Court of Justice...
AfDB funds US$ 2.7 billion projects in Central African Forestry Commission

AfDB funds US$ 2.7 billion projects in Central African Forestry Commission

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is currently funding 80 ongoing operations to the tune of US$ 2.7 billion in all sectors of activity...