Tag: Equatorial Guinea

E.Guinea tightens Covid-19 restrictions as third wave hits

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) — Equatorial Guinea on Friday stiffened measures to tackle Covid-19, citing a third wave of the pandemic in the small central African country. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo reinstated a curfew, tightened travel restrictions and imposed a complete cycle of vaccination on all civil servants. Those previously affected worked only in the health, safety and education fields. Vaccination is now also compulsory for any citizen who undertakes an approach to the […]

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E.Guinea President calls ‘amnesty’ for political prisoners

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) — Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Wednesday announced a “total amnesty” for all political prisoners and opposition figures banned from political activity, according to a decree read on national television. “I grant total amnesty to all citizens condemned by the courts… for political offenses in the exercise of their activity, serving or not serving their sentence,” the presidential decree said. The move comes after President Obiang, who has ruled the […]

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Clashes in Equatorial Guinea as government says it thwarted coup

  MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) — Clashes were reported in Equatorial Guinea near the border with Cameroon on Wednesday, shortly after the West African state said it had thwarted a coup against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Africa’s longest-serving leader. Government troops had shot dead a “mercenary” and “used gunfire to disperse them in the forests along the border,” state television TVGE said, without specifying how many “mercenaries” were involved or how long the clashes lasted. Reports of […]

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E.Guinea leader’s son gets suspended jail term in Paris graft trial

by Juliette MONTESSE and Clare BYRNE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A French court handed down a three-year suspended jail term on Friday to the son of Equatorial Guinea’s leader, Teodorin Obiang, after convicting him of using public money to fund a jet-set lifestyle in Paris. The 48-year-old vice president of the small west African state, who was tried in absentia, was also given a suspended fine of 30 million euros (35 million dollars) by judges […]

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