Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Population: 1.4 mn.
GDP: 20.6 bn.
Debt: n/a
Overview:

Succession talk will again dominate politics as President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo attempts to prepare way for his eldest son, Teodorin, to take over, perhaps before the elections due in 2016. Teodorin, however, will be harrassed by corruption probes in France, Spain and the United States. President Obiang tries to burnish his public image but oppositionists insist he remains as corrupt and oppressive as before.

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  • 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...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 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
  •  28th March 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 sacke...

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 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 Mba...

  • Vol 48 No 25
  •  14th December 2007

Bank blow

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...

  • Vol 47 No 23
  •  17th November 2006

All property is theft

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.

  • Vol 47 No 21
  •  20th October 2006

No man an island

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 are p...

  • Vol 46 No 20
  •  7th October 2005

Billing and couping

Malabo has made no progress in its campaign to ensnare alleged Western coup plotters

  • Vol 46 No 9
  •  29th April 2005

Lost and found

Reports that Severo Moto Nsa, self-styled leader of Equatorial Guinea's Madrid-based government-in-exile, has surfaced in Croatia, are unlikely to stop the feverish speculation about what he's been doing since his family reported him missing a month ago.

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