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 a speech he gave on Sunday, Obiang, who has been in power for over 30 years in the small but oil rich country, said he expected no less than 97 per cent of the total votes. Although, in 2009, GDP per capita was estimated by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) at a staggering $39,916 dollars in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, which is among the highest in the world and on par with Spain and Italy, a vast majority of Equatoguineans live in poverty as the small Central African country battles with dismal socioeconomic indicators.