Equatorial Guinea : News

[Vanguard]Abuja -President Goodluck Jonathan has secured the release of 10 prisoners held by Equatorial Guinea for various immigration offences, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. (AllAfrica)

[RSF]Reporters Without Borders condemns the government's blocking of access to Facebook and certain opposition websites since 12 May. The targets include the site of the main opposition party, Convergence For Social Democracy (CPDS), which is fielding candidates for the 26 May parliamentary and municipal elections. (AllAfrica)

[AI London]The arrest of at least nine activists who were trying to organize a peaceful demonstration in Equatorial Guinea is further evidence of the authorities' determination to clamp down on free speech ahead of up-coming elections, Amnesty International said. (AllAfrica)

The Carla South I-7 ST-1 sidetrack to the I-7 exploration well in Block I has encountered oil in good quality sandstones.

Equatorial Guinea arrested at least four members of the opposition for seeking to organise a protest ahead of an legislative election this month, Amnesty International and a local rights activist said on Wednesday.

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Company Announcement to the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority No. 07-2013, 14 May 2013 FLSmidth has been awarded an order worth approximately EUR 68m from Grupo Abayak AKOGA Cemento S.A. for the supply of a green field cement plant to be located in Akoga on the mainland of Equatorial Guinea.

The company operates through exploration and production activities for oil and natural gas resources.

PA Resources AB is an international oil and gas company. It acquires, develops, explores and divests oil and gas reserves.

Human rights groups are expressing concern about the fairness of legislative elections taking place later this month in Equatorial Guinea.

[AI London]Serious human rights violations and denial of fundamental freedoms in Equatorial Guinea are casting a shadow over campaigning ahead of the 26 May, 2013 legislative elections, Amnesty International, EG Justice, and Human Rights Watch said in a statement released today. (AllAfrica)

[HRW]London -Serious human rights violations and denial of fundamental freedoms in Equatorial Guinea are casting a shadow over campaigning ahead of the May 26, 2013 legislative elections, Amnesty International, EG Justice, and Human Rights Watch said in a statement released today. (AllAfrica)

[HRW]Equatorial Guineans will go to the polls on May 26, 2013, to elect members of a new parliament as well as local council members across the country. Voters will also elect, for the first time, 55members of a new Senate established in accordance with the revised constitution promulgated in February 2012. The remaining 15 will be directly appointed by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (AllAfrica)

JOHANNESBURG 14 October 2010 (IRIN) - A new roadmap for curbing the global epidemic of tuberculosis aims to save five million lives between 2011 and 2015 and eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050 but comes with a price tag of US$47 billion, nearly half of which must still be found. (irinnews.org)

ADDIS ABABA 13 October 2010 (IRIN) - If African countries had had the capacity to do climate change projections, their data could have been fed into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) assessments for the continent, said Richard Odingo, former vice-chair of the IPCC at one of the discussions ahead of the Seventh African Development Forum. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 16 September 2010 (IRIN) - The proportion of women in sub-Saharan Africa who died because of pregnancy fell by more than a quarter between 1990 and 2008, according to estimates released on 15 September. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA/JOHANNESBURG 28 July 2010 (IRIN) - Members of the African Union (AU) reaffirmed at the end of their meeting on 27 July in Kampala, Uganda, that they would strive to spend 15 percent of their national budgets on health, but at the end of the day it is about how "effectively and efficiently" you spend the money, not about how much. (irinnews.org)

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea - The electoral campaigning began on Friday with the vitality of nation that is growing by leaps and bounds.

The government of Equatorial Guinea has established a new loan-guarantee program for small and medium-sized businesses as a means of encouraging entrepreneurs and stimulating the creation of new businesses in the country.

It was something many Senegalese thought they would never see: Karim Wade, arrested at his home and put behind bars in Dakar's infamous prison.

Much of the wealth from natural resources fails to flow to local people, says the Africa Progress Report.

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Equatorial Guinea's elections this month are unlikely to be free as the organising body is controlled by the government and the work of observers will be severely restricted, three human rights organisations said on Tuesday.

For the first time, voters will elect 55 members of a new Senate established in accordance with the constitutional reforms of .

KAMPALA 26 July 2010 (IRIN) - "Children don't vote," said Dr Robert Mwadime, of Uganda Action for Nutrition, at a session on the subject before the three-day African Union (AU) meeting opened in Kampala, Uganda. This means that political leaders in Africa often pay scant attention to the millions of children who die every year of malnutrition-related causes. Most of the audience nodded in agreement; many clapped. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR 06 July 2010 (IRIN) - More than half the paediatric fevers treated in public health clinics in Africa are caused by diseases other than malaria, according to a study by Oxford University and other research groups, whose authors caution against the "continued indiscriminate use of anti-malarials for all fevers across Africa." (irinnews.org)

The South African Football Association has received the decision of the Confederation of African Football in the doping matter of Ms Amanda Sister and the Banyana Banyana stand-in Team Doctor at the time of the 2012 African Women's Championship hosted in Equatorial Guinea.

Hess is in the midst of a multi-year transformation into a focused pure play exploration and production company.

The Carla South exploration well in Block I has encountered oil in good quality sandstones at the target level.

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[RFI]A French court ruled on Thursday that an Ngo did not libel Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema when it accused him of salting away vast amounts of his country's wealth. (AllAfrica)