Equatorial Guinea News

Obiang won 260,462 votes in the election on November 29, a government statement released on its web site said on Friday. Four opponents shared the remaining votes but the government refused to publish a voters' roll. In his second term,...

Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the autocratic president, granted Mr Mann “a full pardon on humanitarian grounds”, according to a decree posted on the information ministry’s website on Tuesday. Mr Mann has been incarcerated in the notorious Black Beach prison in Malabo,...

Speaking after he was freed from the Black Beach prison in Malabo, the capital, Mr Mann said he was “very anxious” that Mark Thatcher, the son of Lady Thatcher, the former British prime minister, and Ely Calil, a UK-based Lebanese...

Possibly the least surprising result in a year of predictable elections in Africa was another victory for Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Admittedly, the brutal autocrat, who has ruled the oil-rich West African nation for 30 years, lost votes...

The group, along with former British mercenary Simon Mann were pardoned by Equatorial Guinea's leader this week. Mercenary activities are banned in South Africa, but a person cannot serve a jail term twice for the same offence. After the prisoners'...

There was the crafty Arab, the swashbuckling old Etonian, a supporting cast of unscrupulous English toffs and a chorus of South African guns for hire. The drama would have been incomplete without a ruthless African: Equatorial Guinea’s dictator for 30...

Election officials say that Nguema has collected 96.7 percent of the votes counted so far, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday. The provisional results from a quarter of the polling stations granted only 0.7 percent to Nguema's rival, Placid...

Incumbent President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who claimed victory with 97 percent of the votes in the last election, has been at the helm of power in the small West African country since 1979. Obiang Nguema vowed to score another landslide...

Obiang made the comments on Saturday, a day before the poll to which journalists and election observers have been given scant access. Members of the media have been denied visas to the country and a presidential decree has ruled that...

A gun was placed to his head and he was threatened with death by an adviser to Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, mercenary Nick du Toit has told Rapport . In a three-hour-interview with the newspaper, Du Toit said...