Vol 45 No 12 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Liberating the liberator 11th June 2004 President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has thwarted a second mercenary-sponsored coup attempt in three months, government officials claim. Five rebels were killed, others were cap...
Vol 45 No 10 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA For show 14th May 2004 Parliamentary and local elections late last month produced an emphatic victory for supporters of the President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. His Partido Democrático para l...
Vol 45 No 7 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA True confessions 2nd April 2004 Amid the swirl of rumour and counter-claim surrounding March's alleged mercenary-led coup, enter a new ingredient - a 13-page, handwritten, signed confession by Simon Mann, the Old...
Vol 45 No 6 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA All in the family 19th March 2004 A failed plot to overthrow President Obiang is the first act in the unfolding succession drama Ten days after the unravelling of a bizarre plot to oust him, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo strode into the People's Palace on 17 March to tell a press conference that th...
Vol 45 No 6 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Malabo imbroglio 19th March 2004 The failed plot to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo swings wildly from farce to tragedy. The arrest of some 65 foreign soldiers (and the seizure of their Boeing 727 jet...
Vol 45 No 3 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Family at war 4th February 2004 The network of family and Esangui clan ties that underpins the presidency of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is deeply divided. The trigger was December's coup attempt by General Agu...
Vol 44 No 22 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA A coup that wasn't 7th November 2003 We hear there's some substance to speculation in Equatorial Guinea's capital of Malabo that the authorities foiled a coup attempt in late October. The government on 30 October furi...
Vol 44 No 4 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA El Jefe reshuffles 21st February 2003 Following his overwhelming but controversial 97.1 percent election victory, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, (aka 'El Jefe' The Boss), has tired of efforts to bring opposit...
Vol 44 No 3 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Oiling the palm trees 7th February 2003 Africa's latest oil state is learning the tricks of the multinational trade The grand plan to reform Equatorial Guinea has hit the rocks. Companies operating in the world's fastest growing oil economy have stood back as President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbas...
Vol 43 No 8 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Purging again 19th April 2002 President Obiang's latest coup plot looks like a pre-succession purge Mass arrests, allegations of torture and public denunciations of dissidents mark President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo's latest purge. For five years, he has told the world that ...