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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 46 No 2
  •  21st January 2005

Crabs in a barrel

Exclusive update on the Equatorian coup plot deals - only available online

  • Vol 45 No 24
  •  3rd December 2004

Under the volcanoes

The greatest threat to President Obiang's personal rule comes from within - not from foreign plotters

  • Vol 45 No 23
  •  19th November 2004

Trial of strength

The decision by Equatorial Guinea to include three British citizens in legal proceedings in connection with an alleged mercenary-led coup apparently uncovered last March is a clear indication of deteriorating diplomatic and commercial relations between Lo...

  • Vol 45 No 18
  •  10th September 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 Con...

  • Vol 45 No 17
  •  27th August 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 plo...

  • Vol 45 No 15
  •  21st July 2004

Private estate

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

  • Vol 45 No 12
  •  11th June 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
  •  14th May 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
  •  2nd April 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
  •  19th March 2004

All in the family

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

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