Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Population: 0.7 million
GDP: $11200 million
Debt: $1.0% of GDP
Overview:

After another near-100% electoral victory in November 2009, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo’s family will continue its political domination as it searches for more oil to finance its excesses.

news from Equatorial Guinea

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  • Vol 45 No 18
  • 10/09/2004

Splodges of wonga

Several businessmen whose names are on the so-called 'wonga list' obtained by South African investigators plan legal action to contest claims of their alleged involvement in a coup plot in March (AC Vol 45 Nos 6, 7 & 17). The list, seen by Africa ...

  • Vol 45 No 17
  • 27/08/2004

New twist

The 25 August raid by South Africa's 'Scorpion' police squad on the Cape Town house of Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, follows a private meeting last week with officials in Pretoria about his alleged involvement in a...

  • Vol 45 No 15
  • 21/07/2004

Private estate

An astonishing report by US legislators exposes some of the Obiang government's mass pilfering

  • Vol 45 No 12
  • 11/06/2004

Liberating the liberator

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has thwarted a second mercenary-sponsored coup attempt in three months, government officials claim. Five rebels were killed, others were captured and a security officer was injured in an incident on Corisco Island, ...

  • Vol 45 No 10
  • 14/05/2004

For show

Parliamentary and local elections late last month produced an emphatic victory for supporters of the President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. His Partido Democrático para la Guinea Ecuatorial (PDGE) and its allies scored 98 of 100 seats in the Cam...

  • Vol 45 No 7
  • 02/04/2004

True confessions

Amid the swirl of rumour and counter-claim surrounding March's alleged mercenary-led coup, enter a new ingredient - a 13-page, handwritten, signed confession by Simon Mann, the Old Etonian ex-Guards officer and well-seasoned private military hand detained...

  • Vol 45 No 6
  • 19/03/2004

All in the family

A failed plot to overthrow President Obiang is the first act in the unfolding succession drama

  • Vol 45 No 6
  • 19/03/2004

Malabo imbroglio

The failed plot to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo swings wildly from farce to tragedy. The arrest of some 65 foreign soldiers (and the seizure of their Boeing 727 jet) at Harare Airport on 7 March, followed by the arrest of a further 15 in B...

  • Vol 45 No 3
  • 04/02/2004

Family at war

The network of family and Esangui clan ties that underpins the presidency of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is deeply divided. The trigger was December's coup attempt by General Agustin Ndong Ona.

  • Vol 44 No 22
  • 07/11/2003

A coup that wasn't

We hear there's some substance to speculation in Equatorial Guinea's capital of Malabo that the authorities foiled a coup attempt in late October. The government on 30 October furiously denied such rumours, which were carried by Agence France Presse, the ...

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