On 5 May a senior French investigating magistrate Françoise Desset decided (after its third rejection) that a case backed by anti-corruption organisations against Bongo Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo could proceed...
Vol 50 No 10 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
The decision may force the reopening of a 2007 police investigation into the assets of Presidents Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon) Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea)and Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Congo-Brazzaville) that was abruptly shut down...
Ossébi and Toungamani were planning to join an international legal complaint against Sassou-Nguesso - he is expected to run for re-election in July after a non-consecutive 24 years in power - and the presidents of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea and Gabon Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Omar Bongo Ondimba...
Burkina is opening a consulate in Malabo soon and in November President Blaise Compaoré visited his colleague Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and tried to persuade him to grant short-term visas to migrant workers...
Vol 50 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Later this month a French judge will rule on the admissibility of a corruption case brought by lawyer William Bourdon founder of Sherpa French non-governmental organisation Survie and the Fédération des Congolais de la Diaspora (AC 50 No 2) against Bongo Sassou and Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo...
When Henry Okah a MEND leader on trial in Nigeria on charges of treason and gunrunning was arrested in Angola in 2007 Nigerian officials said he was plotting against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in Malabo...
Vol 50 No 2 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Africa advisor at the Elysée Bruno Joubert will be awaiting a ruling by Paris's parquet on the admissibility of a civil case against Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema for theft of public funds...
Africa advisor at the Elysée Bruno Joubert will be awaiting a ruling by Paris's parquet on the admissibility of a civil case against Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema for theft of public funds...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Not dying but dancing Expect double celebrations in the camp of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: Obiang will win a presidential election and mark 30 years in power in August...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 |
- SENEGAL
Wade's monument stands as a rejection of those lofty goals: instead of commissioning one of Africa's many internationally renowned sculptors to design the monument Wade hired North Korea's Mansudae Overseas Project Group which specialises in building monuments of the neo-Stalinist school for such autocrats as Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Gabon's late Omar Bongo Ondimba and Togo's late Gnassingbé Eyadéma...
Wade's monument stands as a rejection of those lofty goals: instead of commissioning one of Africa's many internationally renowned sculptors to design the monument Wade hired North Korea's Mansudae Overseas Project Group which specialises in building monuments of the neo-Stalinist school for such autocrats as Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Gabon's late Omar Bongo Ondimba and Togo's late Gnassingbé Eyadéma...
Vol 49 No 25 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Now for the third time two non-governmental organisations Transparency International and Sherpa launched a case on 2 December to seize assets held in France by Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Gabon’s Omar Bongo Ondimba...
Now for the third time two non-governmental organisations Transparency International and Sherpa launched a case on 2 December to seize assets held in France by Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Gabon’s Omar Bongo Ondimba...