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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 victory similar...
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Mark Thatcher may never be prosecuted in the United Kingdom for his role in the failed coup in Equatorial Guinea, say senior British law enforcement sources. Scotland Yard detectives are engaged in a "serious and protracted inquiry" into allegations that,...
Tags: Mark Thatcher, Equatorial Guinea, Scotland Yard, Simon Mann, South Africa, south african, coup attempt, Bata, Ely Calil, Black Beach, Equatorial Guinea coup d'ᅢᄅtat attempt, War Conflict, Mercenaries, Politics, Law Crime
Simon Mann has been urged by Foreign Office officials to remain silent about the coup attempt that left him languishing in an African prison, and settle for a "quiet life" with his wife and family in the UK, The Independent on Sunday has learnt. The...
Tags: Margaret Thatcher, Simon Mann, South African Secret Service, Mark Thatcher, sir mark, Equatorial Guinea, coup attempted, african spy
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' release,...
Tags: Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea, Teodore Obiang Nguema, Simon Mann, South Africans, Mark Thatcher
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...
Tags: Simon Mann, Equatorial Guinea, Mark Thatcher, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Teodore Obiang Nguema, south african
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 businessman, should...
Tags: Simon Mann, Equatorial Guinea, Mark Thatcher, Mr Mann, face justice, Sir Mark, guinea coup, coup plot, British, mercenary simon
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...
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Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has made an emotional speech at a World Refugee Day event in Washington DC. "Refugees are not numbers.They're not even just refugees...Jolie and husband Brad Pitt have have donated $1 million (£612,000) to the UN refugee...
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Jolie-Pitt Foundation, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, George Washington University Hospital, Washington DC, world refugees, Mark Thatcher, London, Chelsea
This is a Saturday, March 8, 2008 file photo of Baroness Thatcher the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Baroness Thatcher is recovering after breaking her arm in a fall. Thatcher's office says the 83-year-old politician fractured a bone...
Tags: Margaret Thatcher, Mark Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, Westminster Hospital, prime minister, The Times of London, minister margaret, British, Chelsea
Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has suffered a broken arm in a fall. The 83-year-old was taken to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital by ambulance but was discharged after treatment and is now said to be "recovering well". Lady Thatcher has suffered...
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