The plotters are said to have been trying to scupper Obiang Nguema's plans to groom his wayward eldest son and Infrastructure Minister Teodorín Nguema Obiang as his successor...
The plotters are said to have been trying to scupper Obiang Nguema's plans to groom his wayward eldest son and Infrastructure Minister Teodorín Nguema Obiang as his successor...
It concedes Ndong Ona had a 'strong discussion' with Teodorín but says the episode so distressed the General that he tried to commit suicide by driving his car into the sea near the second city Bata...
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- CENTRAL AFRICA
The bloody row seems to have been about the suitability of Nguema's chosen successor his eldest son Teodorín Nguema Obiang Mangue...
The bloody row seems to have been about the suitability of Nguema's chosen successor his eldest son Teodorín Nguema Obiang Mangue...
In September Teodorín Nguema Obiang Mangue the President's eldest son who holds the lucrative Forestry and Infrastructure portfolios claimed that members of his family wanted to 'destroy' him following the disarmament of his militia on the orders of his uncle the Director of National Security Armengol Nguema...
In September Teodorín Nguema Obiang Mangue the President's eldest son who holds the lucrative Forestry and Infrastructure portfolios claimed that members of his family wanted to 'destroy' him following the disarmament of his militia on the orders of his uncle the Director of National Security Armengol Nguema...
Many within the ruling clique are understood to oppose El Jefe's plan to groom Teodorín as his successor (AC Vol 44 No 4): he is a wayward unpredictable character whose business interests include a hip-hop record label in Los Angeles...
The reshuffle strengthens heir apparent Teodorín Nguema Obiang Mangue who lost the Environment and Fisheries portfolios but added Infrastructure to his lucrative Forestry Ministry...
The reshuffle strengthens heir apparent Teodorín Nguema Obiang Mangue who lost the Environment and Fisheries portfolios but added Infrastructure to his lucrative Forestry Ministry...
Nguema Obiang (Teodorin favourite son playboy and Forestry Minister who also owns Sofona Simge and Somagui timber companies the domestic airline Geasa and much more); Constancia Mangue Nsue (favourite wife with one of the biggest concessions); Angel Alogo Nchama (parliamentary Vice-President ex-Interior Minister); Hassan Hachem (Lebanese businessman personal advisor to Obiang); Armengol Ondo Nguema (the President's violent brother); Melanio Ebendeng Nsomo (Defence Minister); and so on...
Obiang Constancia and Teodorin tap the main streams leaving peripheral operations to lesser players...
On one side is his first son Teodorín Nguema Obiang Forestry Minister and part-time Los Angeles wannabe rap music executive whose presidential ambitions are aggressively supported by the First Lady Constancia Mangue (AC Vol 42 Nos 10 & 13)...
On one side is his first son Teodorín Nguema Obiang Forestry Minister and part-time Los Angeles wannabe rap music executive whose presidential ambitions are aggressively supported by the First Lady Constancia Mangue (AC Vol 42 Nos 10 & 13)...
Agustin in preparation for Teodorín's takeover...
Teodorín for now looks stronger but is erratic wayward and unlikely to improve...
In Equatorial Guinea for example they see oil wealth invested in Hollywood where President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo's son Teodorin Nguema Obiang is moving ahead in show-business including constructing a studio and elite hotel (AC Vol 42 No 13)...
In Equatorial Guinea for example they see oil wealth invested in Hollywood where President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo's son Teodorin Nguema Obiang is moving ahead in show-business including constructing a studio and elite hotel (AC Vol 42 No 13)...
As United States' oil companies and the Corporate Council on Africa talk up Equatorial Guinea's oil and gas potential Teodorin who is Minister of State for Forests Fishing and the Environment is ready for another business trip Stateside...
Sources in Los Angeles told Africa Confidential that Teodorin spent several weeks in Hollywood accompanied by celebrities beautiful women and a briefcase filled with money...
As talk of Teodorin's adventures spread beyond Hollywood his father put the record straight in an interview with his favourite Paris weekly Jeune Afrique...
He confirmed that the 'sometimes impulsive' Teodorin was launching a show-business company and denied that he had been detained at John F...
The President insisted elections would take place in March 2003 dismissing reports that he had prostate cancer or any other illness or that there was a family quarrel between Teodorin and his brother Gabriel Nguema Lima who is Under-Secretary in the Ministry for Mines and Energy...
Canvassing support among the youth of Malabo Teodorin said his critics were inspired by jealousy...
New friends in Hollywood expect to see Teodorin back soon...
With Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo President since he overthrew his uncle in 1979 in poor health there are high expectations of a bruising contest between Teodorin Nguema Obiang and Gabriel Nguema Lima the President's two eldest sons and both prominent ministers in his government...
With Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo President since he overthrew his uncle in 1979 in poor health there are high expectations of a bruising contest between Teodorin Nguema Obiang and Gabriel Nguema Lima the President's two eldest sons and both prominent ministers in his government...
Teodorin is better connected with the clan and has a more populist style...
But Teodorin has not been seen in Malabo the capital for weeks...
They consider it unlikely that Teodorin would willingly have abandoned his ambition for high office to make way for his half-brother but maintain that oil companies well-connected in Washington would appreciate his enforced absence to allow Gabriel to consolidate his position...
Family contenders for the leadership include Obiang's two eldest sons the favoured but unpredictable Teodorín and the more astute Gabriel who were promoted to minister of state and minister respectively in a government reshuffle in July...