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Minister of Foreign Affairs takes part in 47th session of AU Executive Council

Minister of Foreign Affairs takes part in 47th session of AU Executive Council

Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), July 10 (SPS) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Affairs, Mr. Mohamed Yeslem Beissat, is participating today, Thursday, in the proceedings of the 47th session of the African Union Executive Council in Malabo,...

Political Watch: July 10, 2025

• On July 3, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) released a statement on the passage of the Republican reconciliation bill. Carbajal voted against the bill, while opposing its unprecedented cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and food...

Milagrosa Ada Micha: The woman who revolutionized the media in Equatorial Guinea

Milagrosa Ada Micha: The woman who revolutionized the media in Equatorial Guinea

Micha this year celebrates a decade of transformation, energy, resolve, determination and vigour to push the narrative associated with Equatorial Guinea. HARARE –All across Africa it is a general understand among scholar, academics and the media...

H.E. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Of Equatorial Guinea Today Received H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson & His Accompanying Delegation

H.E. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Of Equatorial Guinea Today Received H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson & His Accompanying Delegation

(MENAFN- APO Group) H.E. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea today received H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the @_AfricanUnion Commission&his accompanying delegation that included Deputy Chairperson...

Téte António in Malabo to participate in the session of the Executive Council of the African Union

Téte António in Malabo to participate in the session of the Executive Council of the African Union

According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seen by VerAngola, the Angolan leader arrived in the capital of Equatorial Guinea this Wednesday. At this session – to be held on the 10th and 11th of this month at the Sipopo...

Trump meets presidents of 5 African nations in bid to boost trade

Trump meets presidents of 5 African nations in bid to boost trade

July 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday met the presidents of five African nations -- Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon -- in what the White House describes as a push to deepen trade, including that involving...

The Doctrine of Intertemporal Law and the Challenge of Decolonising the Law on Territorial and Boundary Issues in Africa: Gabon/Equatorial Guinea at the ICJ

The Doctrine of Intertemporal Law and the Challenge of Decolonising the Law on Territorial and Boundary Issues in Africa: Gabon/Equatorial Guinea at the ICJ

Introduction On 19 May 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered judgment in Land and Maritime Delimitation and Sovereignty over Islands (Gabon/Equatorial Guinea). The Court relied on a 1900 boundary treaty between the Parties’...

Prebendal Rule and the Democracy Challenge in Africa, By Jibrin Ibrahim

Prebendal Rule and the Democracy Challenge in Africa, By Jibrin Ibrahim

The post 1990 return of democracy in Africa skipped many countries that had established successful dictatorships that stood firm. In Equatorial Guinea, the 82 years old dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has been in power since 1979, making...

Vocal critic of West wants reelection as Ugandan president

Vocal critic of West wants reelection as Ugandan president

(MENAFN) Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared his intention to run for a seventh term in the 2026 elections, potentially extending his nearly four-decade-long rule to almost 50 years. Known for his strong opposition to Western influence...

Morocco causes chaos by stealing Sahrawi flag

Morocco causes chaos by stealing Sahrawi flag

Malabo, 10 July 2025 (SPS) – The conference hall hosting the 47th session of the African Union Executive Council in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, on Thursday and Friday witnessed an unprecedented incident. Elements believed to be...

Petrol imports crashed to record low in June – Report

Petrol imports crashed to record low in June – Report

Nigeria’s import of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, by oil marketers fell to a record low in June, majorly driven by a ramp-up in output from the 650,000 barrels-per-day Dangote Petroleum Refinery, new data has shown. An Argus...

Equatorial Guinea Sextapes: Baltasar Engonga risks 18 years jail term

Equatorial Guinea Sextapes: Baltasar Engonga risks 18 years jail term

Remember Baltasar Ebang Engonga? The Equatorial Guinean who went viral in November after explicit sex videos involving him and multiple women surfaced online has returned to the spotlight, this time over allegations of financial fraud. On 7...

Africa News Live Updates: Two South African engineers released from Equatorial Guinea after two years in detention

Africa News Live Updates: Two South African engineers released from Equatorial Guinea after two years in detention

Africa News Live Updates: Welcome to our live blog covering the latest from across Africa. Follow real-time updates on political transitions, security and peacekeeping operations, regional integration efforts, economic innovation, climate impacts,...

Ex-Equatorial Guinea anti-corruption chief with over 400 sextapes faces 18-year jail term

Ex-Equatorial Guinea anti-corruption chief with over 400 sextapes faces 18-year jail term

The embattled former Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, is set to face 18 years imprisonment after he appeared in the Malabo court for his corruption trial. Engonga had been...

Prosecutors Seek 18-Year Jail Term For Ex-Equatorial Guinea Anti-Corruption Chief, Engonga

Prosecutors Seek 18-Year Jail Term For Ex-Equatorial Guinea Anti-Corruption Chief, Engonga

July 03, (THEWILL) — A former Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF) in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga Edjo, may spend the next 18 years behind bars as his high-profile corruption trial continues at a court in...

Lawler to Haitians facing deportation: Get status straightened out now

Lawler to Haitians facing deportation: Get status straightened out now

For hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. and thousands in Rockland, permission to stay in the U.S. ends this fall. "The situation on the ground (in Haiti) is too dangerous, not just for Americans but for Haitians," said Lawler, noting...

Baltasar Engonga: Controversial Equatorial Guinea Gov’t ex-official with over 400 sextapes faces 18 years in jail

Baltasar Engonga: Controversial Equatorial Guinea Gov’t ex-official with over 400 sextapes faces 18 years in jail

Baltasar Engonga, a controversial former government official in Equatorial Guinea, is facing a potential 18-year prison sentence following his appearance in a Malabo court on Monday, June 30, for a corruption trial. The 54-year-old economist by...

Ethiopian Delegation Participating at 47th AU Ordinary Session of the Executive Council

Ethiopian Delegation Participating at 47th AU Ordinary Session of the Executive Council

Addi Ababa, July 10, 2025 (ENA) -- An Ethiopian delegation, led by State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hadera Abera, is taking part in the 47th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU), which kicked off this...

Former Equatorial Guinea anti-corruption chief faces 18-year jail term amid embezzlement trial, sextape scandal

Former Equatorial Guinea anti-corruption chief faces 18-year jail term amid embezzlement trial, sextape scandal

Baltasar Engonga, the former Director General of Equatorial Guinea’s National Financial Investigation Agency, is facing an 18-year prison sentence following his appearance in a Malabo court over serious corruption allegations. Engonga has been in...

Baltasar Engonga: Ex-Equatorial Guinea Anti-graft Chief With Over 400 Leaked S3xtapes Faces 18-year Jail Term

Baltasar Engonga: Ex-Equatorial Guinea Anti-graft Chief With Over 400 Leaked S3xtapes Faces 18-year Jail Term

The former Director-General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, is facing a possible 18-year prison sentence as his corruption trial continues before a court in Malabo. Naija News reports that...

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