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/ 17 April 2008

At least four dead in E Guinea plane crash

At least four people were killed and seven missing after a plane crashed on Wednesday into the Atlantic Ocean off the Equatorial Guinea island of Annobon, the Malabo government announced. There was no confirmation of earlier reports that said that leaders of the ruling party were on board the plane when it crashed.

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/ 30 March 2008

Mann fingers Thatcher in E Guinea plot

A British mercenary awaiting trial in Equatorial Guinea for leading a failed 2004 coup has said the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was involved in the plot, the public prosecutor said on Sunday. Jose Olo said former British special forces officer Simon Mann had testified that Mark Thatcher knew all about the scheme to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

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/ 13 February 2008

British diplomat visits Mann in E Guinea prison

A British diplomat on Tuesday paid a jail visit to Simon Mann, the suspected British mastermind of a failed 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. The visit enabled David Harris to ”see for himself the quality of care Simon Mann has been receiving daily since his arrival” in Malabo, where he was imprisoned, the radio report said.

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/ 11 August 2006

E Guinea prime minister and govt resign

Prime Minister Miguel Abia Biteo Borico and the whole government of the West African state of Equatorial Guinea resigned on Thursday, national television reported. ”As a good militant of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, I hand in the resignation of my government,” Abia Biteo said in a speech relayed on television.

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/ 15 April 2005

E Guinea denies reports of starving prisoners

Equatorial Guinea on Thursday flatly denied charges by Amnesty International that scores of prisoners at a jail in the capital Malabo, including alleged mercenaries, were at risk of dying of starvation. Jailers at Black Beach prison have stopped providing at least 70 prisoners with meals and blocked all contact with their families, the group said.

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/ 2 January 2005

Fire razes houses in E Guinea capital

A fire raged through part of Equatorial Guinea’s capital and destroyed about 100 homes and left almost 1 000 people homeless, but claimed no lives, national radio reported on Monday. A first house in the impoverished Ela Nguema district of the tropical Central African city caught fire when a candle set light to a pile of clothes.

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/ 26 November 2004

SA mercenary gets 34 years

South African Nick du Toit was sentenced on Friday by a court in Equatorial Guinea to 34 years in jail and exiled opposition leader Severo Moto to 64 years for a plot to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Du Toit, who has been held in prison in Equatorial Guinea since his arrest in the central African country in February, was in court to hear the verdict, while Moto was tried in absentia.

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/ 18 November 2004

Thatcher charged in alleged coup plot

Equatorial Guinea prosecutors confirmed on Thursday they have charged Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, with involvement in an alleged coup plot in the oil-rich West African nation. Thatcher is accused of having helped finance the coup attempt, Attorney General Jose Olo Obono said.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125705">Coup plotters sentenced in Pretoria</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=125671">Coup confession came ‘after torture'</a>

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/ 16 November 2004

Thatcher to be tried in absentia

The trial of suspected mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea resumed on Tuesday with a lawyer saying the only defendant to have admitted to a minor role in the alleged putsch will change his testimony. Also, British businessman Mark Thatcher is to be tried in his absence by the court for his alleged role in the coup bid.

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/ 21 October 2004

E Guinea ‘coup plotters’ get new lawyer

A new defence lawyer was on Thursday appointed to a group of alleged coup plotters — including South Africans — held in Equatorial Guinea after their previous counsel died of malaria last week. Fabian Nsue Nguema, a member of the bar in Malabo, will replace his colleague Fernando Mico Nsue, who died on October 12.

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/ 14 October 2004

SA men on trial in E Guinea have to find a new lawyer

The trial of 19 of people accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, due to resume next week, will be postponed following the death of a defence lawyer, the president of the court said on Wednesday. Fernando Mico Nsue, the lawyer for eight South Africans said to be implicated in the coup plot in the oil-rich West African state, died on Tuesday of malaria at the age of 62.

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/ 31 August 2004

E Guinea coup trial suspended

The trial of 19 people accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday at the request of the prosecution, the court said.
"The affair has an international dimension, there are inquiries outside the country that are beyond the remit of this tribunal," said presiding Judge Salvador Ondo.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=121342">’Is it normal to be tortured?'</a>

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Africa
/ 30 August 2004

Forsyth’s coup fiction close to the facts

Frederick Forsyth wrote it up as The Dogs of War and set it in Malabo: a rag-tag band of mercenaries, recruited by a British elite, tries to seize control of a mineral-rich, African backwater. Now the basic plot is playing out again as a trial unfolds for a group accused of a failed plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.

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