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Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Reopen Border, Business Thrives

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Reopen Border, Business Thrives

Cameroon supplies food items, building material and motor spare parts to Equatorial Guinea while Equatorial Guinea delivers beverages, and vegetable oil to Cameroon. Forty-year old Equatorial Guinean business woman Rosaline Avah said there has been a huge movement of goods and people to and from Ebebiyin within the past two weeks after Equatorial Guinea officials […]

Zim troops to stay in E. Guinea providing security for leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema

Zim troops to stay in E. Guinea providing security for leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema

ZIMBABWE will maintain its soldiers deployed in Equatorial Guinea to provide security to the country’s leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as well as train the West African nation’s military, it has been established. Relations between Harare and Malabo strengthened after Harare foiled a coup, known as the Wonga coup attempt, by mercenaries who sought to […]

Delivery Unit Provides Guineans Training Opportunities in Mining

Delivery Unit Provides Guineans Training Opportunities in Mining

The Guinean government’s Delivery Unit (DU) today announced a plan to launch the development of the Mobile Training Unit (MTU) program, starting in the Boké region, to provide Guineans with post-graduate hands-on training and workforce insertion in the mining sector to boost skills and thereby employment. The first MTU in Boké will provide practical training […]

The Trial Of One Of Africa’s Most Corrupt Politicians Shows That Fighting Graft Is Global

The Trial Of One Of Africa’s Most Corrupt Politicians Shows That Fighting Graft Is Global

For the past three weeks, in a crowded and sweltering Paris courtroom, the vice president of Equatorial Guinea has been on trial over allegations that he laundered tens of millions of dollars in France. Prosecutors allege that Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, known by the nickname “Teodorin,” earned around $80,000 per year as agriculture minister during the period […]

France Demands 3-Year Jail Term for Equatorial Guinea President’s Son

France Demands 3-Year Jail Term for Equatorial Guinea President’s Son

French prosecutors said on Wednesday they were seeking a three-year jail term and a 30 million euro fine for Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodorin Obiang, on trial in absentia for embezzlement. The 48-year-old son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema is charged with using money plundered from his country’s state coffers to fund a jet-set lifestyle […]

Two African Countries Get Temporary United Nations Seat

Two African Countries Get Temporary United Nations Seat

U.N. member states elected six countries Friday to temporary seats on the Security Council, the U.N. body responsible for maintaining international peace and security. Starting January 1, 2018, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, Poland and Peru will serve two-year terms, while the Netherlands will join for one year, in a special arrangement with Italy. The […]

Exiled Former President Yahya Jammeh ‘To Take Up Farming Full Time’

Exiled Former President Yahya Jammeh ‘To Take Up Farming Full Time’

Gambia’s exiled former leader Yahya Jammeh has reportedly disclosed plans to take up farming “full time”. Quoting the Jeune Afrique newspaper, a BBC report said that Jammeh was set to go into farming. An unnamed diplomat in Equatorial Guinea was cited as the source of the story, the report said. It was not clear what […]

Equatorial Guinea confirms hosting ousted Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh

Equatorial Guinea confirms hosting ousted Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh

Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Tuesday it was hosting ousted Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who fled his country after West African troops threatened to remove him by force if he did not concede his election defeat. Information Minister Eugenio Nse Obiang confirmed that Jammeh was in the country in a statement sent out to journalists. He […]

Why Poverty Plagues a High-Income Equatorial Guinea

Why Poverty Plagues a High-Income Equatorial Guinea

The African Union’s discussions about poverty have never focused on Equatorial Guinea, a small but oil-rich country boasting the highest per capita income on the continent. But with its foreign minister, Agapito Mba Mokuy, seeking the African Union Commission chairmanship, it is worth asking why the central African nation has done so poorly on social […]

Third largest oil and gas producer in sub-Saharan Africa agrees to production cuts

Third largest oil and gas producer in sub-Saharan Africa agrees to production cuts

The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea announces that it has submitted its interest to join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2017. H.E. Gabriel Mbaga Obiang, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, travelled to Vienna on January 20 to meet with OPEC officials and present the Government of Equatorial Guinea’s offer […]

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