An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Lisandro Ábrego, visited Equatorial Guinea from June 7, 2017 to initiate discussions on a possible program. At the end of the visit, Mr. Ábrego issued the…
Month: June 2017
Summary The president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, once described the discovery of oil in the 1990s off the coast of the small Central African nation as “manna from heaven,” the Biblical life-saving…
The president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, once described the discovery of oil in the 1990s off the coast of the small Central African nation as “manna from heaven,” the Biblical life-saving bread…
INTERVIEW For the past two decades, Equatorial Guinea has been one of Africa’s largest oil producers and on paper, it is a middle-income economy. Yet instead of spending the country’s oil riches on improving life…
By PHILIPPE SOTTO, ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Jun 19, 2017, 12:48 PM ET France put the elusive son of Equatorial Guinea’s president on trial Monday for spending and investing tens of millions of dollars in…