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Florida Courier
March 24, 2018
He took power at independence in 1980 after a long guerilla war. He became a template for the continent's so-called Big Men, who ... Another longtime leader – also implicated in corruption and abuse of power – is at the helm in Equatorial Guinea. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled since 1979,Ãâà...
NDTV
March 18, 2018
Moamer Kadhafi ruled Libya with an iron fist for almost 42 years before being ousted and then slaughtered in 2011 by rebels. Omar Bongo ... Currently the world's longest serving president is Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema, with 38 years under his belt since he toppled his uncle in 1979.
Firstpost
March 18, 2018
Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya with an iron fist for almost 42 years before being ousted and then slaughtered in 2011 by rebels. Omar Bongo ... Currently the world's longest serving president is Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema, with 38 years under his belt since he toppled his uncle in 1979.
Aljazeera.com
March 12, 2018
Other leaders who have been in power for more than a quarter of a century include Tajikistan's Emomali Rakhmon, Cameroon's Paul Biy and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Here is the ... Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya with an iron fist for almost 42 years before being killed in 2011 by rebels.
africanews
March 10, 2018
Jammeh subsequently flew into exile and has since been living in Equatorial Guinea. Barrow came to ... Over in Somalia, the government of Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo continues efforts in the area of deepening human rights in the face of terror threats by insurgent group, Al Shabaab. Journalists in theÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 8, 2018
He is likely to play on those previous relationships with oil-export-dependent African nations that include Angola, Chad, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. ... The ostensible reason for the base in Djibouti, the former French Somaliland, is to counter the alleged Islamist threat from the rebel al-Shabab inÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 8, 2018
The Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) ahead of a debate during which speakers — on International Women's Day — placed women's vital role front and centre in achieving a sustainable peace and security afterÃâà...
Osun Defender (blog)
March 7, 2018
The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the continent brought much hope and excitement. As we have seen in the recent intervention by the military in Zimbabwe, coup d'etats have become unpopular andÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 7, 2018
ANATOLIO NDONG MBA (Equatorial Guinea) called on all political actors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure a clean, fair and transparent electoral process, with the international community and all those involved in the conflict aiming to give all necessary support to the Independent NationalÃâà...
SaharaReporters.com
March 5, 2018
Various militias, rebel groups, and civil society organizations, backed by the Catholic Church are insisting that Joseph Kabila will not be allowed to rule the DRC forever. ... Absolute power corrupts and so it is also with Cameroon's Paul Biya and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
Prensa Latina
March 5, 2018
The Secretary of Information and Public Relations of the Army, Colonel Abdoul Ndiaye, confirmed the news and added that the rebels belong to the Democratic Force of Casmance, who claim for ... Since January, the Senegalese Army has tried to clean the Boffa area, near the border with Equatorial Guinea, of armed men.
OilPrice.com
February 17, 2018
Everything I said about Equatorial Guinea can also be said about Gabon. Iran is obviously ignoring ... The increase in production of the countries represented in this chart, for the last two years, has been all Iran recovering from sanctions and Libya recovering from rebel attacks. Iraq has been relatively flatÃâà...
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 ... He led opposition rebel forces during the Second Civil War in the Congo from 1997 till 1999, when he re-assumed the leadership after ousting President Pascal Lissouba.
OZY
February 8, 2018
Rita Bosaho, Spain's first Black member of Parliament, was born in Equatorial Guinea when it was a Spanish colony. ... Critics brand the party as populist and radical because it was born amid the protests, but Bosaho disagrees, explaining that they are not rebels but a new alternative left party fightingÃâà...
One Green Planet
February 7, 2018
Noah was captured by a Chadian rebel group that killed his mother for food. He was kept tied up in the group's forest camp between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. When the rebels were flushed out, they fled the camp and left the chimp behind.
TRT World
December 31, 1999
Four countries voted "no" – Russia, China, Bolivia and Kazakhstan – while the three African countries, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea ... and has not been part of the month-long offensive waged by the Syrian regime against the opposition fighters and other insurgents in eastern Ghouta.
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
In the ensuing debate, the representative of Equatorial Guinea said priority must be given to protecting and respecting the human rights of the most vulnerable sectors of the population as well as to the safety of humanitarian and health workers. Expressing support for UNSMIL's role as a mediator in Libya,Ãâà...
TRT World
December 31, 1999
Four countries voted "no" – Russia, China, Bolivia and Kazakhstan – while the three African countries, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea ... and has not been part of the month-long offensive waged by the Syrian regime against the opposition fighters and other insurgents in eastern Ghouta.
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