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EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Poverty rife in Africa’s “Kuwait”

MALABO Monday, October 06, 2008 (IRIN) - Equatorial Guinea is one of the world’s top 30 oil producers, according to its Ministry of Mines, but corruption watchdog group Global Witness says most in the country still live in poverty.Global Witness US-based policy advisor, Sasha Lezhnev, told IRIN: “Equatorial Guinea is the dictatorship that no one talks about. The government earns billions in oil every year, yet 60 percent of its population lives on less than US$1 a day.”Lezhnev said the...

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Oil money draws sub-Saharan Africans

MALABO Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (IRIN) - A few years after the first US oil drillers arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1992, hundreds of mostly West African migrants without travel or work papers followed. National police forces now estimate that one-third of the population – more than 300,000 – is from outside the country, with most migrants arriving illegally in search of much-hyped oil money. “About 10 years ago,” said retired police officer Antonio Obiang, “migrants from Nigeria and...

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Oil money draws sub-Saharan Africans

A few years after the first US oil drillers arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1992, hundreds of mostly West African migrants without travel or work papers followed. National police forces now estimate that one-third of the population – more than 300,000 – is from outside the country, with most migrants arriving illegally in search of much-hyped oil money. “About 10 years ago,” said retired police officer Antonio Obiang, “migrants from Nigeria and Cameroon started arriving. The first group...

Guinea coup trial defendant names co-conspirators

Simon Mann, a former United Kingdom SAS officer, told an Equatorial Guinea court that he was one of the "junior" members of a 2004 attempt to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, and not the mastermind as the prosecution claimed. In his address to the court, Mann named several others involved in the plot including Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Chelsea-based Lebanese billionaire Ely Calil, whom Mann alleges was one of the major players. The...

Gambia Absent in 2008 African Women Championship

The Draw of the 6th Edition of The African Women Football Championship, slated for next Year in Equatorial Guinea, was held recently without The Gambia. Twenty two countries out of the 53 in African have entered for the largest Women Sport competition in the continent. Six countries have been given a bye from the preliminaries. They are: Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, South Africa, RD Congo and Mali. The other 16 countries would be battling in the preliminaries of the qualifiers in...