Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Island impasse Political observers in Malabo with one eye on the health of Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and another on suspected mercenaries may shift their focus in 2007...
Disclosures about the business affairs of Teodorin Nguema Obiang eldest son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo have boosted Malabo oppositionists and embarrassed big oil companies...
Buying the islands does not appeal to Malabo as it would legitimise Gabon's claim causing Equato-Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo to lose face...
As usual the lawyers emerged as the real winners after the failed coup against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in March 2004 (AC Vol 46 Nos 8 & 9)...
As usual the lawyers emerged as the real winners after the failed coup against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in March 2004 (AC Vol 46 Nos 8 & 9)...
He was variously said to have been assassinated by agents acting on behalf of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema's government or by men involved in last year's purported mercenary coup plot or possibly planning another coup of his own even meeting old friends in London...
He was variously said to have been assassinated by agents acting on behalf of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema's government or by men involved in last year's purported mercenary coup plot or possibly planning another coup of his own even meeting old friends in London...
British firm Penningtons legal advisors to the government and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo have been suing in the courts of the British island of Guernsey (which is not part of the United Kingdom)...
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seems to want to mend his fences and has appointed his country's first resident Ambassador in London...
Steyl says the coup against President Teodoro Obiang's regime was scheduled for the following day...
Similar realpolitik would seem to govern warming relations with President Teodoro Obiang's oil-rich dictatorship in Equatorial Guinea...
Paranoia among the Mongomo clan around President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has reached new heights since the saga started so much so that many see the hallmarks of an elaborate set-up in the coup allegations and the cast of exotic characters drawn into the subsequent court battles in Malabo Harare Cape Town Beirut London Guernsey and perhaps Madrid...
