- Vol 54 No 2
- 18th January 2013
As President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo’s government rails against foreign influences seeking to destabilise Equatorial Guinea, it is none too pleased with the latest decisions by prosecutors in Valencia, Spain.
- Vol 53 No 22
- 2nd November 2012
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema will host a summit for the 80 member states of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific group in Malabo on 13-14 December. Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council, the ACP’s key multilateral negotiating partner, is lo...
- Vol 53 No 3
- 3rd February 2012
Washington-based lobbyist Lanny J. Davis, a former counsel for ex-President Bill Clinton, is suing Equatorial Guinea. At issue is the non-payment of expenses incurred when Davis was hired in March 2010 by the office of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mba...
- Vol 52 No 21
- 21st October 2011
On 19 October, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo nominated his son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (‘Teodorín’) as his new deputy envoy to the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. This followed UNESCO’s decisio...
- Vol 52 No 20
- 7th October 2011
Publication of Simon Mann’s memoirs have been delayed until the end of October. The former Special Air Service officer was released 33 years early in 2009, after conviction in the 2004 conspiracy to topple President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago (AC Vol 5...
- Vol 51 No 13
- 25th June 2010
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
- 25th June 2010
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
- 6th November 2009
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
- 20th February 2009
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 in n...
- Vol 49 No 23
- 14th November 2008
Who kidnapped a presidential nephew in Yaounde; and why the neighbours disagree so often