Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Chinese contractors’ delight 1st July 2013 Multiple major contracts are handed out but the details of the deals remain obscure China Dalian International Economic and Technical Cooperation Group (CDIG) is the primary beneficiary of the close ties between Beijing and Malabo. With no debate about costs or tr...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Teodoro Obiaiang Nguemama Mbasogo 4th April 2013 President, Equatorial Guinea In his first official visit since the initiation of diplomatic relations between Equatorial Guinea and Thailand in 1991, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and his wife Consta...
Vol 53 No 22 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Bienvenido a Malabo 2nd November 2012 President Teodoro Obiang Nguema will host a summit for the 80 member states of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific group in Malabo on 13-14 December. Herman van Rompuy, President of ...
Vol 53 No 3 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA No reform yet 3rd February 2012 Washington-based lobbyist Lanny J. Davis, a former counsel for ex-President Bill Clinton, is suing Equatorial Guinea. At issue is the non-payment of expenses incurred when Davis w...
Vol 52 No 21 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Teodorin’s week 21st October 2011 On 19 October, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo nominated his son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (‘Teodorín’) as his new deputy envoy to the Paris-based United Nations Educat...
Vol 52 No 20 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Those were the days 7th October 2011 Publication of Simon Mann’s memoirs have been delayed until the end of October. The former Special Air Service officer was released 33 years early in 2009, after conviction in the ...
Vol 51 No 13 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Obiang’s prize turnip 25th June 2010 A rebranding exercise for the Malabo government backfires as UNESCO belatedly rejects Obiang’s kind offer of a US$3 mn. prize for science After much internal agonising and diplomatic arm-twisting, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation backed down on 15 June and rejected an offer from Eq...
Vol 51 No 13 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA See you in court in Beirut 25th June 2010 The fortunes of one of Black Beach gaol’s most celebrated inmates, the convicted coup plotter Simon Mann, have improved since his release ‘on compassionate grounds’ by President Te...
Vol 50 No 22 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA After his release, Simon Mann seeks revenge and a book deal 6th November 2009 Some facts may now emerge about the sponsors and planners of the 2004 coup attempt - and about who was set to benefit An expensive round of score-settling and legal cases among the purported financiers and conspirators behind the 2004 coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is likely to be the immediate ou...
Vol 50 No 4 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA New putsch, new players 20th February 2009 The gun battle in the early hours of 17 February between armed groups making a seaborne assault on Malabo and its security forces seems to have been sparked by regional opposition ...