Vol 45 No 24 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Under the volcanoes 3rd December 2004 The greatest threat to President Obiang's personal rule comes from within - not from foreign plotters Politics in Malabo, like the three volcanoes surrounding the capital city, are bound to erupt some time. If anything, the government's bizarre handling of the purported mercenaries' coup...
Vol 45 No 23 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Trial of strength 19th November 2004 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...
Vol 45 No 18 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Splodges of wonga 10th September 2004 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...
Vol 45 No 17 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA New twist 27th August 2004 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...
Vol 45 No 15 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Private estate 21st July 2004 An astonishing report by US legislators exposes some of the Obiang government's mass pilfering The scandal enveloping the venerable Washington-based Riggs Bank, which once called itself the 'most important bank in the most important city in the world', has been flung into...
Vol 45 No 12 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Liberating the liberator 11th June 2004 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...
Vol 45 No 10 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA For show 14th May 2004 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)...
Vol 45 No 7 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA True confessions 2nd April 2004 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...
Vol 45 No 6 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA All in the family 19th March 2004 A failed plot to overthrow President Obiang is the first act in the unfolding succession drama Ten days after the unravelling of a bizarre plot to oust him, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo strode into the People's Palace on 17 March to tell a...
Vol 45 No 6 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Malabo imbroglio 19th March 2004 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...
Vol 45 No 3 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Family at war 4th February 2004 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...