Vol 46 No 20 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Billing and couping 7th October 2005 Malabo has made no progress in its campaign to ensnare alleged Western coup plotters As usual, the lawyers emerged as the real winners after the failed coup against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in March 2004 (AC Vol 46 Nos 8 & 9). Ever since, Obiang and his ...
Vol 46 No 9 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Lost and found 29th April 2005 Reports that Severo Moto Nsa, self-styled leader of Equatorial Guinea's Madrid-based government-in-exile, has surfaced in Croatia, are unlikely to stop the feverish speculation abo...
Vol 46 No 8 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA No papers, no case 15th April 2005 Equatorial Guinea has failed to obtain disclosure of documents it needs for its case against the alleged coup plotters of March 2004. British firm Penningtons, legal advisors to th...
Vol 46 No 5 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Emotional stress 4th March 2005 Since last year's muddled coup attempt involving British citizens (including Sir Mark Thatcher), Britain's relations with Equatorial Guinea have been cool. President Teodoro Obiang...
Vol 46 No 2 | EQUATORIAL GUINEASOUTH AFRICA Crabs in a barrel 21st January 2005 Exclusive update on the Equatorian coup plot deals - only available online South African prosecutors are pressing ahead with investigations into the Equatorial Guinea coup saga following their plea bargain deal with Mark Thatcher, which was ratified in Ca...
Vol 45 No 24 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Under the volcanoes 3rd December 2004 The greatest threat to President Obiang's personal rule comes from within - not from foreign plotters Politics in Malabo, like the three volcanoes surrounding the capital city, are bound to erupt some time. If anything, the government's bizarre handling of the purported mercenaries...
Vol 45 No 23 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Trial of strength 19th November 2004 The decision by Equatorial Guinea to include three British citizens in legal proceedings in connection with an alleged mercenary-led coup apparently uncovered last March is a clear...
Vol 45 No 18 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Splodges of wonga 10th September 2004 Several businessmen whose names are on the so-called 'wonga list' obtained by South African investigators plan legal action to contest claims of their alleged involvement in a coup...
Vol 45 No 17 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA New twist 27th August 2004 The 25 August raid by South Africa's 'Scorpion' police squad on the Cape Town house of Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, follows a private meeting ...
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 or...