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Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea
Population: 1.3 mn.
GDP: 14.5 bn.
Debt: n/a
Overview:

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo will continue rhetoric on reform while implementing none and facing no challenges, save advancing age and family feuds. Oil production should rise to 300,000 barrels a day amid talk of another LNG plant.

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  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

No reform yet

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

Teodorin’s week

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

Those were the days

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

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
  •  25th June 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
  •  6th November 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
  •  20th February 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 in n...

  • Vol 49 No 23
  •  14th November 2008

A kidnapped colonel

Who kidnapped a presidential nephew in Yaounde; and why the neighbours disagree so often

  • Vol 49 No 14
  •  4th July 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 compensa...

  • Vol 49 No 13
  •  20th June 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 Salam...

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