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/ 17 February 2009
Gunmen in motor boats attacked oil-producing Equatorial Guinea’s island capital early on Tuesday, triggering a fire fight with government forces.
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/ 11 October 2008
Bafana Bafana end their disappointing 2010 Africa Cup of Nations Group Four qualifying programme with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Equatorial Guinea.
Simon Mann, the British mercenary who attempted to organise a coup in Equatorial Guinea, was sentenced to 34 years in prison on Monday.
A court in Equatorial Guinea has sentenced British mercenary Simon Mann to 34 years and four months in prison for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot.
A statement read on state-run radio in Equatorial Guinea says a court is expected to issue a verdict shortly in the case of Simon Mann.
Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has accepted the resignation of the country’s government, calling it ”one of the worst ever”.
Mercenary leader Simon Mann, on trial in Equatorial Guinea, claims that the country’s Attorney General visited him in Harare and offered him a deal.
Government lawyers displayed a contract in court on Friday as proof that Simon Mann played a key role in a plot to overthrow E Guinea’s president.
Equatorial Guinea’s state prosecutor asked a court on Tuesday to sentence British mercenary Simon Mann to nearly 32 years in prison.
British mercenary Simon Mann goes on trial Tuesday in Equatorial Guinea for allegedly plotting to oust the oil-rich country’s iron-fisted ruler.
The West African state of Equatorial Guinea voted on Sunday in elections expected to be won yet again by the veteran hardline president amid opposition charges of voting irregularities and harassment. The oil-rich state went to the polls in local and general elections whose results were for observers a foregone conclusion
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.
A Briton accused of masterminding a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea is being held illegally and has been denied access to his lawyer since he was charged in February, a defence attorney said on Saturday. British mercenary Simon Mann was secretly deported to the West African state of Equatorial Guinea on January 31 from Zimbabwe.
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
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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/ 7 February 2008
Former British special forces officer Simon Mann will go on trial in Equatorial Guinea, charged with plotting to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the government said on Thursday. ”He will receive a fair trial with all procedural and institutional guarantees,” a government statement said.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea on Monday named Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea the country’s new Prime Minister and asked him to form a government, national television said. Mangue Obama Nfubea’s predecessor and the whole government of the West African state had resigned on Thursday.
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.
Distraught families in Equatorial Guinea were trying on Monday to identify or simply get news of the mostly charred bodies of at least 60 people killed when an overloaded Antonov passenger plane crashed in flames at the weekend. The Russian-built aircraft went down in dense jungle on Saturday soon after take-off.
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Sunday pardoned six Armenian pilots who had been sentenced to prison for their alleged roles in an attempted coup last year. The president granted the pardon as a ”humanitarian gesture” on the occasion of his 63rd birthday.
Equatorial Guinea on Friday welcomed news that South Africa will try suspects who allegedly organised a coup plot in this oil-rich Central African nation. South African prosecutors said on Monday they will try 61 suspected mercenaries who were deported to South Africa from Zimbabwe a day earlier.
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.
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
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
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.
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/ 16 November 2004
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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/ 8 November 2004
Authorities in Equatorial Guinea have hailed President Robert Mugabe as a savior of their nation for preventing a mercenary invasion of the country, the state radio said on Sunday, but ordinary Guineans gave the visiting Zimbabwean leader the cold shoulder.
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/ 21 October 2004
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
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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/ 13 October 2004
The lawyer for eight South Africans implicated in a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea died in Malabo on Tuesday of malaria, his family said. Fernando Mico Nsue, who also suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure, died on the way to hospital at the age of 62, said his eldest son, Alberto Nguema.
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.
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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.