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Africa Times
February 27, 2018
If it were merely the old guard – President Teodoro Obiang in a corrupt Equatorial Guinea or President Paul Biya in a draconian Cameroon – one might ... In Mauritania, opposition politicians are watching President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz for signs that he wants to stay put beyond term limits; UgandanÃÂ ...
Big Think (blog)
February 11, 2018
Obiang has been President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979, when he ousted his uncle from power in a military coup. He tolerates little opposition, with the ... Thousands of opposition politicians, activists and human rights workers have been murdered under his regime. Amnesty International claims thatÃÂ ...
Quartz
February 10, 2018
Uganda's political cartoonists have sharp pens, producing work that is often highly critical of the government and state of the country. And yet, unlike the rest of Uganda's media, they have largely managed to avoid the government's tightening grip on freedom of expression. This, despite “often controversialÃÂ ...
STRATFOR
January 26, 2018
Obiang's government has accused circles in France, the home of large African diasporas, as well as exiled politicians and military members from Africa who might be enticed by Equatorial Guinea's oil wealth, of hatching the plot and providing the participants in the coup attempt with financial support.
ReliefWeb
January 20, 2018
Corruption, poverty, and repression of human rights continue to plague Equatorial Guinea under President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the world's ... Mismanagement of public funds, credible allegations of high-level corruption and repression of civil society groups and opposition politicians, andÃÂ ...
Voice of America
January 19, 2018
Anatolio Ndong Mba, Equatorial Guinea's U.N. ambassador and head of the U.N.'s 54-nation African Group, said Nikki Haley “regretted” the fallout from the ... Trump and several politicians who attended the meeting where the remarks were reported to have been made are now denying that the presidentÃÂ ...
The Maravi Post
January 9, 2018
The first-republic politicians who were more concerned with attaining independence than preparing for the administrative rigors of governance? Or the ... Or Cameroon, Uganda and Equatorial Guinea, whose citizens have learned to live with rulers who've clung to power for over 30 years? Or Chad andÃÂ ...
PaZimbabwe
January 8, 2018
Kenya Denies Jonathan Moyo Political Asylum, Reports Say He Is In Equatorial Guinea ... Jonathan Moyo deepened yesterday, with the Kenyan government denying claims that the Zimbabwean politician was granted political asylum in the East African nation, after he fled his country following the ouster ofÃÂ ...
News1130
January 6, 2018
“Another FP (foreign policy) blunder for the Trump administration,” he wrote. Russia portrayed the Security Council meeting as a US attempt to violate Iran's sovereignty. Envoys from several other countries, from China to newcomer Equatorial Guinea, expressed reservations about whether the council wasÃÂ ...
World Politics Review
January 5, 2018
Equatorial Guinea: The government said it put down a coup attempt by mercenaries from Chad, the Central African Republic and Sudan who “were recruited by Equatorial Guinean militants from certain radical opposition parties with the support of certain powers.” Details of the failed putsch, whichÃÂ ...
africanews
January 5, 2018
Good 2017 for The Gambia's female politicians: Veep, speaker, special MP. Good 2017 for The Gambia's female politicians: Veep, speaker, special MP. Abdur Rahman Alfa ... He is currently living in Equatorial Guinea. Jammeh's vice president for two decades (between 1997 and 2017) was a woman in theÃÂ ...
The Island.lk
January 3, 2018
The overwhelming condemnation of American recognition of Jerusalem, as the capital of Israel by the 193-member UN General Assembly, is now a matter of history. The repudiation of the American uncivility by the international community came after the US had vetoed an identically worded resolutionÃÂ ...
Daily Trust
December 31, 2017
The Adamu Fika report in 2010, concluded that Nigeria was spending way too much on 18,000 top politicians and civil servants, who cream off N1.13 trillion ... Cameroon's GDP is $25 billion, but it only generates tax revenues of $5.2 billion while Equatorial Guinea generates $10.2 billion in tax revenues.”.
Deutsche Welle
December 21, 2017
Poultry ban hurting Cameroonian farmers 01.06.2016. Gabon and Equatorial Guinea have imposed ban on table birds from Cameroon due to the resurgence of the avian influenza virus. Poultry farmers say the ban has hugely affected their business. TOP STORIES ÷ Germany ÷ World ÷ Business ÷ Scienceà...
Business Mirror
December 18, 2017
Two former SBM Offshore executives charged: SBM Offshore recently agreed to pay $238 million to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in Brazil Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan and Iraq. Yet, the woes of the company are far from over, as former Senior Sales Manager of SBM Offshore PaulÃÂ ...
SDE Entertainment News
December 16, 2017
'I am not a politician, and if there is now a change of political vision (in Angola), that is normal and not my problem,' Isabel said last week. ... The third member of the '37 Club' is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who also came to power in 1979 in the Equatorial Guinea after getting his mad uncleÃÂ ...
The Observer
December 14, 2017
... Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Iraq, Morocco, Niger, Pakistan, Republic of Congo, Somalia, and Ukraine. The Uganda Communications Commission has constantly issued warnings to upcountry media outlets for hosting opposition politicians andÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
December 6, 2017
Equatorial Guinea's playboy vice president may still be living the high-life at home, but in France, he is a convicted criminal — thanks to a recent ... Criticized by France's Medef employers union and conservative politicians and hailed by anti-corruption groups, it is considered by some a model for otherÃÂ ...
The Observer
December 5, 2017
“Uganda will be middle-income soon,” the politician declared amid cheers from the crowd. “It means every Ugandan will earn ... The same story can be told of Equatorial Guinea, whose per capita income is at $8,333 but with about 60 per cent of the people below the UN poverty line. Equatorial Guinea andÃÂ ...
HuffPost
July 10, 2017
PARIS — For the past three weeks, in a crowded and sweltering Paris courtroom, the vice president of Equatorial Guinea has been on trial over allegations that he laundered tens of millions of dollars in France. ... The Equatorial Guinean government has gone to great lengths to protect Teodorin. Days afterÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
December 31, 1999
Some of the African leaders who have left power recently, from left, Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Jacob Zuma (South Africa) and Yahya Jammeh (The Gambia). At a time when Africa has seen a few long-standing leaders exit, the issue of change in power is occupying minds of citizens as well as those inÃÂ ...
Freedom Newspaper
December 31, 1999
The way politicians present themselves in their speeches, by referring to themselves, their audience and their opposition can successfully be used to persuade ... Yahya Jammeh didn't want to exit the presidency as soon as he did, and his life's plan wasn't to wind up hosting “Farming in Equatorial Guinea.”.
ValueWalk
December 31, 1999
Politicians, especially those holding a public office, are supposed to serve their country and their people. But many politicians use their political power for illegitimate private gains – at the expense of taxpayers, of course. According to a list of ten most corrupt prime ministers compiled by Fox News Point,ÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 31, 1999
The diaspora leadership also worked with Vanguard Africa, a nonprofit that advocates for pro-democracy politicians. Jeffery Smith, the executive ... But it still came as a surprise when Jammeh lost the election and fled to Equatorial Guinea, after threats of regional military intervention. Not only did manyÃÂ ...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
The President of Equatorial Guinea, Friday categorically rejected calls for Gambia's ex-leader Yahya Jammeh to be extradited to his country to face allegations of egregious human rights violations and state theft.Emerging from a meeting with his Guinean counterpart Alpha Conde in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
November 26, 2017
In many cases, politicians deliberately collude with foreign ... as that in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, for example, where the president and his son ...
The Wire
November 24, 2017
Mugabe's fall has raised hopes among opposition politicians that other ... They include Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang, president for 38Â ...
New Telegraph Newspaper
November 22, 2017
They include Obiang Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea (38 years); Paul ... range of politicians and activists will now try to seize upon Mugabe's ...
BBC News
November 19, 2017
... from timber firms who were exporting from Equatorial Guinea. ... She insists that she is a politician in her own right who took part in the ...
The Times
November 18, 2017
But in countries such as Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, ruling families have long monopolised power and they, too, have been worried by the ...
Deutsche Welle
November 16, 2017
... in Southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo. ... I took the title of a book by Victor Hugo, because I see the politicians of my ...
New York Times
November 16, 2017
... have clung to power for decades in Africa — from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon ... Even the wiles of a politician of Mr. Mugabe's stature do not ... the generation of former fighters and politicians who had been with him in ...
EURACTIV
November 15, 2017
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang casts his ballot for the ... the offshore activities of more than 120 politicians and world leaders, ...
NAIJ.COM
October 27, 2017
A court in France has sentenced Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodorin Obiang to three years suspended jail term after he was found ...
The American Interest
October 13, 2017
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue of Equitorial Guinea is not only facing the ... Mangue, the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea and the son of the country's ... but also in seeking a prison sentence—a first for a sitting politician ...
Stears Business
October 2, 2017
How we judge, or ought to judge our politicians is a question of both opinion and fact. ... you can be considered a good politician if you spend lots and a bad ... Teodoro Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Jose dos Santos of ...
The Australian (blog)
September 28, 2017
... my knowledge of the 2004 coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea in that it ... a ball around the park but even then there are politicians in the crowd.
Open Democracy
September 21, 2017
... Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang or Zimbawe's Robert Mugabe. Neither does it depend on the interests of some politicians who capitalize ...
Independent Online
September 12, 2017
Malabo - Equatorial Guinea's state prosecutor demanded the death ... web of financiers seeking to put exiled politician Severo Moto in power.
Independent Online
September 11, 2017
Equatorial Guinea, sub-Saharan Africa's third largest oil producer, says it ... multinational firms to put an exiled opposition politician into power.
Independent Online
September 11, 2017
Malabo - An Equatorial Guinea court is due to give its verdict on ... Obiang with exiled opposition politician Severo Moto, with backing from an ...
HuffPost
July 10, 2017
The government of Equatorial Guinea, which is on the western coast of ... The Equatorial Guinean government has gone to great lengths to ...
HuffPost
July 10, 2017
The government of Equatorial Guinea, which is on the western coast of ... The Equatorial Guinean government has gone to great lengths to ...
The Star, Kenya
June 27, 2017
Huddah Monroe defends 'corrupt' politician's party ... in honour of the vice president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue.
The Guardian
January 2, 2017
The son of Equatorial Guinea's leader is due to go on trial for corruption and money laundering in a landmark case in France. Obiang, the ...
The Sun Daily
April 27, 2016
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea: An opposition politician said Tuesday that police have barred him and 200 of his supporters from leaving his ...
Chron.com
December 31, 1999
Nearly every country - save for the African nations Equatorial Guinea, Chad and Somalia - have signed an 2005 international agreement to outlaw bribery and other business-related corruption and cooperate in the investigation and prosecution of these cases. That cooperation played a role in the SBMÂ ...
The Economist
December 31, 1999
Opposition politicians heaped abuse on the court's judgment. “It makes Bolivia a country subservient to the whim of ... In November Mr Morales gave Bolivia's highest honour to Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea tyrannically for 38 years. Mr Morales jokingly asked him for tips on how to win ...
Salon
December 31, 1999
... Turkmenistan or Equatorial Guinea, there aren't any serious checks ... because “it works,” politicians, journalists, activists, ordinary citizens, ...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Criticized by France's MEDEF employers group and some conservative politicians and hailed by anti-corruption groups, it is considered by ...
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