Air France misses Cameroon mountain – investigation opened
An Air France aeroplane narrowly missed central Africa’s highest mountain in early May, French investigators say. Flight AF953 was travelling from Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, to Douala, Cameroon’s largest city and commercial capital, when it hit bad weather on 2 May. While avoiding storm clouds, the plane came close to hitting the 4,040-metre […]
Report: Ebola Survivors Can Transmit Virus Through Sex
U.S. health officials say Ebola survivors can spread the disease through unprotected sex many months after being declared free of the virus.In a report Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detailed the case of a 44-year-old Liberian woman who is believed to have contracted Ebola through sexual intercourse with an Ebola survivor. The […]
China and Equatorial Guinea sign a $2 billion deal
China’s biggest lender by assets, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, said on Wednesday it had signed an infrastructure pact worth $2 billion with the oil-rich west African nation of Equatorial Guinea. The agreement was signed on Tuesday following a meeting in Beijing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Equatorial Guinea President Teodor Obiang Nguema, […]
11 people sentenced to life in prison for murdering a team educating locals about Ebola
CONAKRY—A court in Guinea has sentenced 11 people to life in prison for murdering a team educating locals about the risks of Ebola in a remote part of the West African country last year.The bodies of eight people were discovered in September in Womey, a village near the city of Nzerekore around 1,000 km (620 […]
The 10 Most Powerful Men In Africa 2015
While 2014 was a extremely challenging year for the continent with some unprecedented lows; the seemingly unrelenting Ebola outbreak in the Western African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone; the horrific Hoko Haram kidnapping of nearly 300 school girls in the middle of the night in Nigeria; growing political unrest and strife in South […]
Morocco fined $1 million and banned for failing to host African Cup of Nations
Morocco was fined $1 million by the Confederation of African Football on Friday and may ultimately have to pay up to $10 million for failing to host this year’s African Cup of Nations soccer tournament because of fears over Ebola.Morocco was also banned from the next two tournaments in 2017 and 2019, Africa’s football body […]
Spain ready to permanently host US Marines for deployment on Africa missions
Spain said Friday it was starting negotiations with Washington to host a permanent US Marines intervention force for deployment on missions to Africa.The Spanish government said it was ready to permanently extend an agreement under which the force has been based at Moron de la Frontera, near Seville in southern Spain. The government approved negotiations […]
Genoveva Anonma forced to strip naked to prove that she was a woman
Genoveva Anonma was used to the insults. For years, she had shrugged off the suspicions, ignored the accusations.But what she was not prepared for was the degrading ordeal that followed her starring performance for Equatorial Guinea in the 2008 African Women’s Championship.Scorer of the winning goal on home soil as her country became the first […]
2015 Nations Cup to have big problems and imperfections
Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou has admitted he expects an “imperfect” hosting of the 2015 Africa cup of Nations. Equatorial Guinea have only weeks to prepare for the 17 January to 8 February tournament after replacing original hosts Morocco on 14 November.Hayatou told BBC Sport: “If I say there will be no problems, […]
