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 Mbasogo Nguema’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 43 No 8
  • 19/04/2002

Purging again

President Obiang's latest coup plot looks like a pre-succession purge

  • Vol 42 No 13
  • 29/06/2001

Star-struck

Teodorin Nguema Obiang is back home in Malabo, as the race to succeed his father, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, heats up. As United States' oil companies and the Corporate Council on Africa talk up Equatorial Guinea's oil and gas potential, Teo...

  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

Brothers Nguema

The latest intrigues among Equatorial Guinea's ruling family indicate the succession struggle is heating up in Africa's emerging oil emirate. The stakes are high: the country's current oil production of 185,000 barrels a day is rising fast with the United...

  • Vol 41 No 15
  • 21/07/2000

Call the ex-marines

Washington's State Department has just approved an application by the Virginia-based Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI) for a licence to assess Equatorial Guinea's requirements for a coast guard to defend its increasingly valuable territorial wat...

  • Vol 40 No 25
  • 17/12/1999

Obiang's heritage

Succession talk could spark political change in Africa's newest emirate

  • Vol 40 No 14
  • 09/07/1999

Border blues

Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon are falling out again over their boundaries in the Gulf of Guinea's oil-rich waters (AC Vol 40 No 9). President Paul Biya failed to dampen down the row at a Communauté Economique et Monétaire de l'Afrique C...

  • Vol 40 No 9
  • 30/04/1999

Abubakar's offer

A rare visit to Malabo by a Nigerian head of state allowed General Abdulsalami Abubakar to congratulate President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on joining the ranks of Gulf of Guinea oil producers and to discuss the thorny issue of their maritime boundari...

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