With Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo President since he overthrew his uncle in 1979 in poor health there are high expectations of a bruising contest between Teodorin Nguema Obiang and Gabriel Nguema Lima the President's two eldest sons and both prominent ministers in his government...
With Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo President since he overthrew his uncle in 1979 in poor health there are high expectations of a bruising contest between Teodorin Nguema Obiang and Gabriel Nguema Lima the President's two eldest sons and both prominent ministers in his government...
Teodorin is better connected with the clan and has a more populist style...
But Teodorin has not been seen in Malabo the capital for weeks...
They consider it unlikely that Teodorin would willingly have abandoned his ambition for high office to make way for his half-brother but maintain that oil companies well-connected in Washington would appreciate his enforced absence to allow Gabriel to consolidate his position...
Family contenders for the leadership include Obiang's two eldest sons the favoured but unpredictable Teodorín and the more astute Gabriel who were promoted to minister of state and minister respectively in a government reshuffle in July...
