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Gabon’s post-coup ruler has visited The Congo to improve the relations between the two neighbors and lobby for the easing of his country’s international isolation after a group of military officers overthrew Ali Bongo Ondimba whose family had ruled Gabon since 1967. General Brice Oligui Nguema, who met with Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso on […]
Gabon’s transition leader Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is expected this Tuesday September 19 in neighboring Equatorial Guinea in a bid to ease tensions after Malabo was finger-pointed for supporting an alleged countercoup against Nguema who seized power on August 30. Nguema’s trip, his first since assuming officially power on September 04, aims at thawing […]
Paris-based multinational financial services company, Société Générale, also known as SocGen, has withdrawn from four African countries, namely Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Mauritania. The company announced this Thursday that it has signed agreements with two pan-African banking groups for the sale of its subsidiaries in the four African countries. The company has not disclosed […]
Two Georgian sailors captured early this month by pirates in Gabon’s territorial waters have been released from captivity, authorities of the European country announced Wednesday. “Two Georgian sailors abducted in Gabon were freed on May 21 thanks to the efforts of Georgia’s foreign ministry, the Georgian embassy in South Africa, and Georgia’s maritime transport agency,” […]
Recorded executions in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years, according to an Amnesty International annual report published on Tuesday (16 May), which also decries the situation particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with its “most notorious executioners (carrying) out killing sprees”. Recorded executions worldwide reached 883 last year, the highest […]
A super-yacht and two properties belonging to Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, were seized last week by South African court that suggested the properties may be auctioned to pay a South African businessman who sued Obiang for wrongful arrest and torture after an airline deal went wrong. South African businessman Daniel Janse […]
Equatorial Guinea has announced its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever nearly as deadly as Ebola, the World Health Organization (WTO) confirmed 13 February. Nine people have died of Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea, a small central African country of about 1.6 million. A health alert had been declared in Kie-Ntem […]
Despite regular warnings by US military commanders about a possible second Chinese military base in Sub-Saharan Africa and rumors about new footholds in countries like Equatorial Guinea, China’s strategic interest in Africa is relatively low, especially when compared with regions like Southeast Asia and the Middle East, according to a new policy brief published by […]
The United Nations has repealed rights to vote of six countries including South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon over arrears on dues to operating budget of the global organization. The three African countries, in addition to Dominica, Venezuela and Lebanon, have lost their rights to vote per charter of the organization. Members whose arrears equal […]
Ruslan Obiang Nsue, a son of Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo, has been placed under house arrest for the alleged sale of an airplane belonging to the country’s flagship airline Ceiba Intercontinental, reports say. State television (TVGE) Tuesday reported that Obiang Nsue allegedly sold the jet, ATR 72-500, to the company Binter Technic, which […]