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- Vol 51 No 13
- 25/06/2010
Obiang’s prize turnip
A rebranding exercise for the Malabo government backfires as UNESCO belatedly rejects Obiang’s kind offer of a US$3 mn. prize for science
- Vol 51 No 13
- 25/06/2010
See you in court in Beirut
The fortunes of one of Black Beach gaol’s most celebrated inmates, the convicted coup plotter Simon Mann, have improved since his release ‘on compassionate grounds’ by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo last November. In April, Mann sold his Palladia...
- Vol 50 No 22
- 06/11/2009
After his release, Simon Mann seeks revenge and a book deal
Some facts may now emerge about the sponsors and planners of the 2004 coup attempt - and about who was set to benefit
- Vol 50 No 4
- 20/02/2009
New putsch, new players
The gun battle in the early hours of 17 February between armed groups making a seaborne assault on Malabo and its security forces seems to have been sparked by regional opposition groups. 'A contingent of rebel terrorists from the Niger Delta arrived i...
- Vol 49 No 23
- 14/11/2008
A kidnapped colonel
Who kidnapped a presidential nephew in Yaounde; and why the neighbours disagree so often
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
No case, no answer
On 26 June, Malabo quietly dropped a three-year campaign to pursue some of the alleged architects of the 2004 mercenary coup plot for civil damages in England (AC Vol 49 No 13). The High Court in London had in 2005 already thrown out the case for compe...
- Vol 49 No 13
- 20/06/2008
At the circus
Britain's tenuous relations with Equatorial Guinea are likely to be the other casualty - alongside natural justice - after this week's show trial in Malabo of former Special Air Services officer Simon Mann, a Lebanese national named Mohammed S...
- Vol 49 No 9
- 25/04/2008
Vicious voting
Coup plot claims, a lucrative oil deal and a plane crash are enlivening the desultory campaigning ahead of parliamentary and municipal elections in Equatorial Guinea due on 4 May. The ruling Partido Democrático de Guinea Ecuatorial and its allies already ...
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
Butcher Shop
The sacked director of South Africa's National Intelligence Agency, Billy Masetlha, is at the centre of fresh claims about the agency's collusion with plotters against Equatorial Guinea's government. Like his close ally Jacob Zuma, Masetlha was also s...
- Vol 49 No 4
- 15/02/2008
From Chikurubi to Blackbeach
Simon Mann, former Special Air Service officer and mercenary, was extradited on 1 February from Zimbabwe to Equatorial Guinea, where he is to face charges of coup plotting in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema ...
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