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Equatorial Guinea: Human Rights Lawyer ‘Disappeared’
The authorities in Equatorial Guinea should immediately investigate the alleged enforced disappearance of a top human rights lawyer who has been unaccounted for...
Equatorial Guinea: UNESCO’s Shameful Award
(Paris, July 16, 2012) – UNESCO’s decision to issue a controversial prize sponsored by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea is disappointing...
Equatorial Guinea: Abuses Ahead of AU Summit
Equatorial Guinea’s government has spent lavishly on diplomatic accommodations while neglecting the rights of the country’s poor in the lead-up to hosting the African...
Equatorial Guinea deletes German TV crew’s footage
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a German television crew and the destruction of their footage by authorities in Equatorial Guinea.
On...
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
As the proper role of government continue to debated in much of the free world, Africans, and in particular Central Africans can only...
96 organisations, including 34 IFEX members, call on UNESCO to pull Obiang Prize
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization should cancel the Obiang Prize at its next session in October 2010, Human Rights Watch and...
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...
Equatorial Guinea Statement on UNESCO Decision to Delay the Award of the UNESCO-Obiang Mbasogo Prize
The Government of Equatorial Guinea (Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial) released the following statement today in response to the announcement by UNESCO's Director-General, Irina Bokova...
Equatorial Guinea: “Dictator Prize” suspension only a temporary fix, says Human Rights Watch
UNESCO's decision today to delay awarding a controversial prize named after and funded by the dictator of Equatorial Guinea is a positive initial step,...
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...
New Permanent Representative of Equatorial Guinea Presents Credentials to UN Secretary-General
Anatolio Ndong Mba, the new Permanent Representative of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Prior to...
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 elections:: Teodoro Obiang Nguema wins
Equatorial Guinea’s interior ministry has announced the final results of Sunday’s election. Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been re-elected with 95.37% of the votes. In...
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...
Equatorial Guinea: President dominates state media election coverage, opposition invisible
In the absence of any independent media, Reporters Without Borders condemns the state-owned media's totally one-sided coverage of the
campaign for the 29 November presidential...
Equatorial Guinea: President’s re-election slightly short of 100%
Equatorial Guinea, the oil rich central African country, Sunday re-elected President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, 67, with a whopping 97% of the total votes cast....
Equatorial Guinea-South Africa: Mercenaries will not face second jail term
The four South African men convicted for their role in an Equatorial Guinea coup plot will not be re-arrested when they return home, reports...
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,...
UK-Equatorial Guinea: Simon Mann to help prosecute Sir M. Thatcher
Former British soldier, Simon Mann flew back to Britain yesterday after announcing that he would help prosecute Sir Mark Thatcher and others he claimed...
Equatorial Guinea-South Africa: Zuma to strengthen ties
President Jacob Zuma has decided to strengthen economic and diplomatic ties with oil heavyweight Equatorial Guinea during a visit on Wednesday, writes Reuters. Zuma’s...
Equatorial Guinea: Simon Mann “regrets”
British mercenary Simon Mann, jailed last year for his part in plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, has expressed regret for his actions. “I...
France-Gabon-Congo-Equatorial Guinea: France halts African leaders’ corruption case
A French appeals court has halted a lawsuit against three African leaders accused of embezzlement. Transparency International, an anti-corruption group accused the leaders of...
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…
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,...
Spain Investigates President of Equatorial Guinea for Laundering Oil Money
After thirty years of corrupt rule in Equatorial Guinea, the courts are finally taking a serious look at what the ruling family does with...
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?
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
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
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...