Equatorial Guinea News

After more than five years in jail, the British mercenary is seeking vengeance on others he says were part of the failed 'Wonga Coup' a ' including Mark Thatcher The statements had a certain similarity.

Photograph: Anna Zieminski/AFP/Getty Images Documents detailing Sir Mark Thatcher's alleged involvement in the botched coup in Equatorial Guinea are among evidence being examined by Scotland Yard.

Simon Mann arrived back in the UK yesterday for a "wonderful homecoming". The ex-SAS soldier, who has been away five and a half years, was pardoned after serving 15 months of a 34-year sentence over a bungled coup in Equatorial Guinea.

The South African mercenaries jailed for their part in an Equatorial Guinea coup plot are back in South Africa, a security expert said on Friday.

FREED mercenary Simon Mann arrived back in the UK yesterday to "the most wonderful homecoming I could ever have imagined.

Leaders of South Africa and Equatorial Guinea condemned the activities of mercenaries, in a joint communique, following the release of five men jailed over a 2004 coup plot in Malabo.

A chronology of key events : 1471 - Portuguese navigator Fernao do Po sights the island of Fernando Poo, which is now called Bioko.

Nov 4 - A wealthy British mercenary has arrived back home after being pardoned in Equatorial Guinea for trying to overthrow the President of the oil-rich African nation.

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Scotland Yard counter terrorism detectives are preparing to question freed mercenary Simon Mann.

From the windows of the A 3m Casa Flores mansion in one of the Costa del Sol's most exclusive and luxurious enclaves, there are unspoilt views across woodland and immaculate golf courses to the shimmering Mediterranean Sea.

Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP The British mercenary Simon Mann, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison in Equatorial Guinea last year for plotting to overthrow the oil-rich country's government, has been granted a presidential pardon.

BEIRUT: Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri received on Monday a Lebanese delegation of Equatorial Guinea expatriates headed by Habib Daher, who informed the speaker of the Lebanese expatriates' community situation.

Country Analysis Brief: Equitorial Guinea Source: Energy Information Administration Equatorial Guinea has become a significant oil exporter since the discovery and development of large offshore oil reserves in the mid-1990s. While oil production has increased from 5,000 barrels per day to current levels of close to 365,000 bbl/d, production rates ...

Malabo - Heavy rain deluged a city in Equatorial Guinea, killing a woman with an electric shock as water surged through a street criss-crossed by electric cables, national radio reported Friday.

Malabo - Heavy rain deluged a city in Equatorial Guinea, killing a woman with an electric shock as water surged through a street criss-crossed by electric cables, national radio reported Friday.

The new Equatorial Guinea Oil & Gas Report forecasts that the country will account for just 0.03% of African regional oil demand by 2013, while providing 3.55% of supply.

A French appeals court has halted a lawsuit against three African leaders accused of embezzlement.

After traveling to the offshore oilfields of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea , I was in the company of Nigerians and Ugandan nationalists.

Our study brings to light the potential dissemination of this strain in Equatorial Guinea, a country where little is known about the extent and features of TB or MDR TB.