Vol 45 No 15 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Private estate 21st July 2004 An astonishing report by US legislators exposes some of the Obiang government's mass pilfering The scandal enveloping the venerable Washington-based Riggs Bank, which once called itself the 'most important bank in the most important city in the world', has been flung into...
Vol 45 No 12 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Liberating the liberator 11th June 2004 President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has thwarted a second mercenary-sponsored coup attempt in three months, government officials claim. Five rebels were killed, others were captured and a security...
Vol 45 No 10 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA For show 14th May 2004 Parliamentary and local elections late last month produced an emphatic victory for supporters of the President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. His Partido Democrático para la Guinea Ecuatorial (PDGE)...
Vol 45 No 7 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA True confessions 2nd April 2004 Amid the swirl of rumour and counter-claim surrounding March's alleged mercenary-led coup, enter a new ingredient - a 13-page, handwritten, signed confession by Simon Mann, the Old Etonian...
Vol 45 No 6 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA All in the family 19th March 2004 A failed plot to overthrow President Obiang is the first act in the unfolding succession drama Ten days after the unravelling of a bizarre plot to oust him, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo strode into the People's Palace on 17 March to tell a...
Vol 45 No 6 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Malabo imbroglio 19th March 2004 The failed plot to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo swings wildly from farce to tragedy. The arrest of some 65 foreign soldiers (and the seizure of their...
Vol 45 No 3 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Family at war 4th February 2004 The network of family and Esangui clan ties that underpins the presidency of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is deeply divided. The trigger was December's coup attempt by General...
Vol 44 No 22 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA A coup that wasn't 7th November 2003 We hear there's some substance to speculation in Equatorial Guinea's capital of Malabo that the authorities foiled a coup attempt in late October. The government on 30 October...
Vol 44 No 4 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA El Jefe reshuffles 21st February 2003 Following his overwhelming but controversial 97.1 percent election victory, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, (aka 'El Jefe' The Boss), has tired of efforts to bring oppositionists into government....
Vol 44 No 3 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Oiling the palm trees 7th February 2003 Africa's latest oil state is learning the tricks of the multinational trade The grand plan to reform Equatorial Guinea has hit the rocks. Companies operating in the world's fastest growing oil economy have stood back as President Teodoro Obiang Nguema...