Equatorial Guinea : News
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Papers may link Mark Thatcher to coup plotPhotograph: Anna Zieminski/AFP/Getty Images Documents detailing Sir Mark Thatcher's alleged involvement in the botched coup in Equatorial Guinea are among evidence being examined by Scotland Yard.
(Topix.net)Equatorial Guinea mercenary Simon Mann back in Britain
Simon Mann arrived back in the UK yesterday for a "wonderful homecoming". The ex-SAS soldier, who has been away five and a half years, was pardoned after serving 15 months of a 34-year sentence over a bungled coup in Equatorial Guinea.
(Topix.net)Mercenaries back in SA
The South African mercenaries jailed for their part in an Equatorial Guinea coup plot are back in South Africa, a security expert said on Friday.
(Topix.net)Freed Guinea coup plot mercensary Simon Mann returns to UK
FREED mercenary Simon Mann arrived back in the UK yesterday to "the most wonderful homecoming I could ever have imagined.
(Topix.net)An Unwelcome Reputation
BECAUSE coups should generally not be encouraged, we are uncomfortable about the prospect that President Jacob Zuma might have played an important role in the early release of four South African mercenaries who have just been granted amnesty for a failed 2004 coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. (AllAfrica)
Zuma Returns From Equatorial Guinea
President Jacob Zuma's visit to Equatorial Guinea provided a good opportunity for both South Africa and that country to proceed to review different issues relating to bilateral cooperation. (AllAfrica)
Zuma Visits Obiang
At the invitation of His Exellency OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, His Excellency Jacob ZUMA, President of the Republic of South Africa, carried out a Working Visit to Equatorial Guinea, from the 3rd to the 4th of November, 2009, heading a high-level delegation. (AllAfrica)
AFRICA: ‘Sexually-transmitted grades’ kills quality education
DAKAR Friday, October 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers. From ‘Sexually Transmitted Grades’ to ‘BF’, or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual activities with teachers, this slang hints at the prevalence of exploitation in Africa’s learning environments. (irinnews.org)
SA, E Guinea condemn mercenaries
Leaders of South Africa and Equatorial Guinea condemned the activities of mercenaries, in a joint communique, following the release of five men jailed over a 2004 coup plot in Malabo.
(Topix.net)Timeline: Equatorial Guinea
A chronology of key events : 1471 - Portuguese navigator Fernao do Po sights the island of Fernando Poo, which is now called Bioko.
(Topix.net)Released British mercenary back home
Nov 4 - A wealthy British mercenary has arrived back home after being pardoned in Equatorial Guinea for trying to overthrow the President of the oil-rich African nation.
(Topix.net)Department Confirms Release of Locals in Equatorial Guinea
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has confirmed the release of four South Africans by the Equatorial Guinea Government into the custody of the South African Embassy in Malabo. (AllAfrica)
Zuma to Cement Ties With Equatorial Guinea
President Jacob Zuma is due to visit the oil rich Equatorial Guinea today with the aim of strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries. (AllAfrica)
Equatorial Guinea president pardons British coup plotter
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(Topix.net)Police set to quiz freed mercenary
Scotland Yard counter terrorism detectives are preparing to question freed mercenary Simon Mann.
(Topix.net)Mark Thatcher: In his Spanish retreat, 'Scratcher' faces fresh questions over role in 'Wonga Coup'
From the windows of the A 3m Casa Flores mansion in one of the Costa del Sol's most exclusive and luxurious enclaves, there are unspoilt views across woodland and immaculate golf courses to the shimmering Mediterranean Sea.
(Topix.net)Govt Frees Mercenaries
The government of Equatorial Guinea has freed four South African mercenaries jailed for plotting to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, South Africa's foreign ministry has announced. (AllAfrica)
French Court Blocks Probe of Three Presidents
A French Appeal Court in Paris yesterday rejected the demand of the Transparency International (TI) organization for leave to open a probe in France into the estates of three African heads of state. (AllAfrica)
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Poverty rife in Africa’s “Kuwait”
MALABO Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Equatorial Guinea is one of the world’s top 30 oil producers, according to its Ministry of Mines, but corruption watchdog group Global Witness says most in the country still live in poverty. (irinnews.org)
Simon Mann pardoned over role in coup
Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP The British mercenary Simon Mann, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison in Equatorial Guinea last year for plotting to overthrow the oil-rich country's government, has been granted a presidential pardon.
(Topix.net)Lebanese expats tell of hardship in Equatorial Guinea
BEIRUT: Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri received on Monday a Lebanese delegation of Equatorial Guinea expatriates headed by Habib Daher, who informed the speaker of the Lebanese expatriates' community situation.
(Topix.net)Country Analysis Brief: Equitorial Guinea
Country Analysis Brief: Equitorial Guinea Source: Energy Information Administration Equatorial Guinea has become a significant oil exporter since the discovery and development of large offshore oil reserves in the mid-1990s. While oil production has increased from 5,000 barrels per day to current levels of close to 365,000 bbl/d, production rates ...
(Topix.net)AFRICA: Call to ban cluster bombs
KAMPALA Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid calls for African countries to do more to ensure the weapons are banned. (irinnews.org)
WEST AFRICA: Mixed report card in 2008 corruption index
DAKAR Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (IRIN) - Nine West African countries shot up while nine others sank lower in the 2008 Transparency International (TI) ranking of perceptions of corruption in 180 countries. (irinnews.org)
Woman killed by electric shock amid storm
Malabo - Heavy rain deluged a city in Equatorial Guinea, killing a woman with an electric shock as water surged through a street criss-crossed by electric cables, national radio reported Friday.
(Topix.net)Woman killed by electric shock amid storm
Malabo - Heavy rain deluged a city in Equatorial Guinea, killing a woman with an electric shock as water surged through a street criss-crossed by electric cables, national radio reported Friday.
(Topix.net)Equatorial Guinea Oil And Gas Liquids Production Is Forecast To Peak At 425,000b/d In 2013
The new Equatorial Guinea Oil & Gas Report forecasts that the country will account for just 0.03% of African regional oil demand by 2013, while providing 3.55% of supply.
(Topix.net)French court halts probe into three African leaders' assets
A French appeals court has halted a lawsuit against three African leaders accused of embezzlement.
(Topix.net)Feral Children: Monkey boys and Lobo girl...
After traveling to the offshore oilfields of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea , I was in the company of Nigerians and Ugandan nationalists.
(Topix.net)Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain from Equatorial Guinea Detected in Spain
Our study brings to light the potential dissemination of this strain in Equatorial Guinea, a country where little is known about the extent and features of TB or MDR TB.
(Topix.net)First Human Trafficking Court Case in Iceland
Not 100 meters out the harbor onto open sea she was pitching as violently as a drunken horse.
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