The United States has listed 13 African countries as among the 23 worst offenders for human trafficking. In its 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report released on Tuesday, the U.S. placed countries in three tiers with…
Month: June 2017
Teodorin Obiang, Equatorial Guinea’s vice president and son of its leader, denounced a French legal case against him Thursday as a fabricated vendetta designed to damage the country’s government.The 47-year-old, known for his taste for…
POSTED BY: DONATO NDONGO President Obiang has not become magnanimous, tough: he is obliged to present his friendly face, overwhelmed by serious problems that for the first time threaten the absolute power he has held…
Teodorin Obiang, accused of plundering $115m, owns luxury properties, yachts, cars – and Michael Jackson’s crystal glove Obiang, the 47-year-old vice-president of the oil-rich but impoverished African country, faces an array of legal cases across…
President Obiang has ruled for nearly four decades in Equatorial Guinea, a tiny country that’s too opaque to even include on transparency indexes. His son (and Vice-President) owns luxury cars and homes all over the…
Global Witness has learned that Teodorin Obiang, the notorious son of Equatorial Guinea’s long-ruling dictator, commissioned plans to build a superyacht worth $380 million – almost three times more than his energy-rich country spends annually…
By: Open Society Justice Initiative Equatorial Guinea is one of the world’s wealthier nations, with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) greater than that of Italy, South Korea, or Saudi Arabia. Yet the country’s…
By: Javier Blas in Malabo Equatorial Guinea Standing nearly five storeys high, the granite headquarters of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea epitomises the power of this small country’s ruling party. A pastiche of Middle…
Tuesday, 27 June 2017 | MYT 2:11 PM LONDON: China plans to pour almost $7 billion into floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) projects in Africa, betting on a largely untested technology in the hope that…
By Faith Karimi and Matou Diop, CNN Updated 7:21 AM ET, Fri June 23, 2017 Paris (CNN)The son of Equatorial Guinea’s President is on trial in France for splurging on a Parisian mansion, a private…