Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

In October Zuma took the South African Communist Party's Blade Nzimande and Congress of SA Trade Unions' Zwelinzima Vavi on a 'private' visit to Equatorial Guinea as guests of that country's dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema who presides over one of the most corrupt regimes in Africa with an abysmal record on human rights and labour relations...

In October Zuma took the South African Communist Party's Blade Nzimande and Congress of SA Trade Unions' Zwelinzima Vavi on a 'private' visit to Equatorial Guinea as guests of that country's dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema who presides over one of the most corrupt regimes in Africa with an abysmal record on human rights and labour relations...

Cipriano a former colonel in the Equatorial Guinean army and a nephew of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo fled to Cameroon in 2003 and was granted refugee status there...

On the first day of the trial on 17 June Attorney General José Olo Obono accused Mann to his face and his associates in absentia - Lebanese trader Ely Calil Prime Ministerial scion Mark Thatcher and sundry collaborators including Greg Wales David Tremain and Nigel Morgan - of plotting the violent overthrow of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004 an act he compared with the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001...

Supporters of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in power since 1979 say he is a target of coup plots organised by dissident groups and foreign powers...

Africa Confidential has seen copies of an affidavit written by a senior African National Congress official and businessman claiming that Masetlha was paid Euro 252 000 in January 2004 to lobby the Pretoria government to support a plan by British ex-Special Air Services officer Simon Mann and others to overthrow Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang...

Simon Mann former Special Air Service officer and mercenary was extradited on 1 February from Zimbabwe to Equatorial Guinea where he is to face charges of coup plotting in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004...

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Defying claims of deteriorating health President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo will dominate the political scene as he has since seizing power in 1979...

That inconsistency allows President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea to be deemed a'good friend' of the USA...

That inconsistency allows President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea to be deemed a'good friend' of the USA...

He might just get some help from Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo who was on a four-day visit to Zimbabwe last week...

They have been involved in probing bank accounts held by (among others) Presidents Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon...