Equatorial Guinea

There was little fanfare in Equatorial Guinea in October 1968 as that country celebrated perhaps the shortest independence handover in history. I know because I was there.

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(Washington, DC, October 25, 2012) – Authorities in Equatorial Guinea have arbitrarily detained the prominent lawyer Fabián Nsue Nguema in Black Beach prison in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, and are refusing to allow him visitors, EG Justice and Human Rights Watch said today.

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In a divisive 33-18 vote with 6 abstentions, UNESCO’s governing Executive Board approved a renamed prize on March 8 under the name UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences and pressed UNESCO’s Director-General, Irina Bokova, to move quickly to award it.

(NEW YORK, JUNE 6, 2012) – The pardon by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea of Dr.

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As a next step, the French Justice Ministry is expected to circulate the warrant through European and international law enforcement databases known as the Schengen Information System (SIS) and Interpol to seek his arrest.