Equatorial Guinea News

Participation has been "dismal" in an international program designed to show how nations profit from oil, gas and mining, human rights activists said.

Jose Luis Gomez del Prado, from the UN committee on mercenaries, told the meeting the largely US- and British-based industry, worth many billions of dollars a year, had boomed in African and across the world.

The gift-filled shoe boxes that are collected in Canada in 2009 will be distributed in the following countries: Central America and the Caribbean: a Costa Rica a El Salvador a Guatemala a Haiti a Nicaragua South America: a Argentina a Bolivia a Chile a Paraguay a Uruguay a Venezuela West Africa: a Cote d'Ivoire a Equatorial Guinea a Guinea Bissau a ...

DR.A PAA Kwesi Nduom, the 2008 presidential candidate of the Convention Peoplea s Party says the EO Group is being victimized unduly by the National Democratic Congress government.

Troops from Cameroon last week attacked a supply ship in Equatorial Guinea, apparently because they wanted to steal the vessel, Malabo's government spokesperson Osa Osa Ekoro said on Tuesday.

A U.S. Senate investigation is trying to get to the bottom of an alleged money laundering scheme that included the purchase of a hilltop Malibu mansion by a an allegedly-corrupt official from Africa with ties to a well-known U.S. rapper/actress, it was reported Saturday.

FACE TO FACE: Are rent-a-soldiers a good tool for governments in conflict zones? This week's debate is about the rent-a-soldier or the mercenary phenomenon.

Geneva - The Togolese Football Federation has appealed to the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration of Sport to overturn the two-year ban imposed on their side for pulling out of the African Cup of Nations.

Lucas Abaga Nchama has taken up functions as governor of the Bank of Central African States, BEAC.

Yesterday I declared this the Week of Oil. While the Obama administration is calling for more green jobs and support of the clean tech industry , it is also calling for more research on 'clean coal' and more off-shore drilling.

In its report released last week, the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that Chicago-based Sidley Austin LLP transferred approximately $21 million for a government official, Teodor Obiang, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, whoa d long been suspected of misappropriating the country's oil and timberA resources ...

A preparatory committee for commemorating the Day of the Sun and February 16 was inaugurated in Equatorial Guinea on Feb.

Malabo - The deputy head of national security in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea has been dismissed on allegations of planning a coup, a police official said on Sunday.

Omar Bongo, the president of Gabon until his death last year, was said to have brought $1m to the US in shrink-wrapped $100 notes.

Rap star Eve is part of a U.S. Senate investigation into the illicit laundering of millions of foreign dollars by her former boyfriend, Teodorin Nguema Obiang.

WASHINGTON – Foreign dictators, high-living bureaucrats and arms dealers are still able to funnel millions of dollars in potentially corrupt money into the United States despite post-Sept. 11 laws cracking down on money laundering, according to a Senate investigation.

The explosive new report by the Senate investigations subcommittee out today, which I covered here , is filled with lurid, juicy details about four previously unreported money-laundering cases in the US and the Americans who aided that laundering.

Invasive Alien Species, ranging from disease and plants, to rats and goats, are one of the top three threats to life on this planet, according to a new publication coordinated by the Global Invasive Species Programme , of which IUCN is a partner.

Invasive alien species have been measured for the first time in a large scale study that included 57 countries across the globe.

The six-member Central African Economic and Monetary Community opened its summit on Sunday in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic, to discuss the troubled regional bank.