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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 45 No 6
  •  19th March 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
  •  4th February 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
  •  7th November 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 ...

  • Vol 44 No 4
  •  21st February 2003

El Jefe reshuffles

Following his overwhelming but controversial 97.1 percent election victory, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, (aka 'El Jefe' The Boss), has tired of efforts to bring oppositionists into government. On 11 February, Obiang announced a new team, all d...

  • Vol 44 No 3
  •  7th February 2003

Oiling the palm trees

Africa's latest oil state is learning the tricks of the multinational trade

  • Vol 43 No 8
  •  19th April 2002

Purging again

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

  • Vol 42 No 13
  •  29th June 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
  •  18th May 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
  •  21st July 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
  •  17th December 1999

Obiang's heritage

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

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