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…
Tag: Equatorial guinea
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…
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…