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Central African countries have signed an agreement to create a regional oil and gas pipeline network and hub infrastructures which proponents say will strengthen energy supply and reduce dependence on imports of refined products. The deal, inked on Thursday (8 September), aims to construct three multinational oil and gas pipeline systems of around 6,500 km, […]
Namibia and Equatorial Guinea are looking to strengthen energy ties and specifically focusing on LNG development and knowledge-sharing opportunities. A high-level delegation led by Namibia’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo, visited regional gas leader, Equatorial Guinea, earlier this week aimed at strengthening energy ties and expanding dialogue between the two nations. A series […]
Six French soldiers are detained at Bata airport. Malabo accuses France of undermining its security. A few hours after the condemnation of its vice president, Equatorial Guinea accused France of having tried to undermine the country’s security, after a French army helicopter landed at the airport of Bata without authorization. The national authorities do not […]
Several African Foreign Ministers have reaffirmed Monday their respective countries’ support to Morocco’s territorial integrity and to its efforts to reach a settlement to the Sahara issue This came in separate talks the Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita held remotely with several African peers, including Equatorial Guinea’s Simeón Oyono Esono Angue; Burundia’s Albert Shingiro; […]
The inauguration ceremony of this consulate was co-chaired by Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, and his Equatorial Guinean counterpart Simeón Oyono Esono Angue. This is the 7th consular representation inaugurated in Dakhla in 2020, after the consulate general of The Gambia, opened on January 7, the consulate general of […]
Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea told United Nations judges Monday that French authorities illegally seized the central African nation’s embassy in Paris as part of a money laundering investigation on the son of the country’s president. On the first day of hearings, before the International Court of Justice, Malabo’s lawyers insisted the six-storey mansion at 42, […]
Equatorial Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs Simeón Oyono Esono Angue is currently visiting Morocco, carrying a message from President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo to King Mohammed VI. “I am carrying a message from H.E. Obiang Nguema Mbasogo to H.M. King Mohammed VI,” the Foreign Minister told the media after talks with his Moroccan peer Nasser […]
Noble Energy has made a new discovery in Block 1 offshore Equatorial Guinea, with the US company expecting to produce new oil by October, the oil minister said on Tuesday. According to Gabriel Obiang Lima, minister of hydrocarbons and mines, the government is excited to announce the discovery, “which could not have come at […]
The Bank of Central African States, also known as Banque des Etats de I’Afrique Centrale (BEAC), this week said the prices of 28 commodities exported by the six states of the regional bloc (CEMAC) accounting for 90% of export values, declined by 6.2% during the first quarter of 2019. The regional bloc consists of Cameroon, […]
Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons Gran Canaria on Thursday emphasized his country’s commitment to using its energy resources to diversify the economy. Equatorial Guinea is among the largest oil producers in Africa, with an output of 280,000 bopd. Speaking at the III Oil & Gas Meeting Day, Mr. Canaria gave details on multiple […]