Who kidnapped a presidential nephew in Yaounde; and why the neighbours disagree so often
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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
...
A daring raid on two banks in Bata, Equatorial Guinea's commercial capital, on 5 December has prompted a sharp breach in relations with neighbouring Cameroon, an overhaul of national security and new questions about the spread of instability in an already...
Disclosures about the business affairs of Teodorin Nguema
Obiang, eldest son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, have boosted Malabo oppositionists and embarrassed big oil companies.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan wanted to
resolve a 35-year old territorial dispute between Equatorial Guinea
and Gabon before his tenure ends. That looks doubtful. The minuscule,
uninhabited islands of Mbanié, Cocotiers and Conga ar...
Malabo has made no progress in its campaign to ensnare alleged
Western coup plotters
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