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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...
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
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?
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’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,...
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...
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
Gabon and Equatorial Guinea said on Tuesday that they had made substantial progress towards referring their border dispute to the International Court of Justice...
Football : Nigeria beats Equatorial Guinea in second leg of 2010 World Cup/CAN qualifiers
Nigeria's Super Eagles' attacker, Ikechukwu Uche tucked in the second goal for the country at the 82nd minute into the second leg of the...
Simon Mann, British mercenary, accused of plotting a coup in Equitorial Guinea goes on trial
Simon Mann, a British national and ex-SAS officer arrested four years ago in Zimbabwe for plotting a coup detat, has gone on trial in...
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...
Libya reiterates Africa’s demand for two UN Security Council seats
Libya on Friday reiterated Africa's position that the continent should be given two permanent seats with all privileges, including the veto, on the United...