Marc Ona Essangui

The former general now officially a civilian to meet candidacy requirements has skilfully consolidated support enlisting figures from the Bongo machine opposition leaders like Deputy Prime Minister Alexandre Barro Chambrier and respected activists such as rainforest campaigner Marc Ona Essangui (AC Vol 65 No 25 General Oligui Nguema shows how to run a coup)...

Although Oligui Nguema is a cousin of the Bongos he has secured the acquiescence or even active support of many critics of the old regime such as Alexandre Barro Chambrier – now deputy prime minister – and the current national assembly vice-president François Ndong Obiang as well as prominent civil society voices including Geoffroy Foumboula Libeka and the senator and environmental campaigner Marc Ona Essangui...

Environmental campaigners such as Brainforest founded by Marc Ona Essangui a winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize claim to have scuppered the financing from China Export-Import Bank for the Bélinga investment by highlighting the potential for environmental damage by the mine and associated energy projects...