Equatorial Guinea News

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.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is striving to be a global player in carrying out its mandate, including protecting the world's cultural heritage, and shed more light on the close relations between culture and development, the head of UNESCO has told Xinhua in a recent exclusive interview.

Filiberto Ntutumu Nguema, general secretary of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, released a statement on January 8 in support of the joint New Year editorial of the DPRK.

Six Heads of State of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, CEMAC took part in the 10th CEMAC Summit in Bangui from the 15-17th January 2010.

"The people of Equatorial Guinea and our government are deeply saddened and concerned by the extreme devastation and loss of life that has occurred in Haiti as a result of this terrible earthquake.

A Washington-based NGO has labeled Burma one of the worst countries in the world for - freedom' in an annual report, released yesterday.

"Governments are more likely to permit relatively honest elections than to allow an uncensored press, a robust civil society, and an independent judiciary," Puddington writes.

The crackdown in Iran in 2009 highlighted a continuing decline in freedom and rights for the fourth consecutive year, the democracy watchdog group Freedom House reported Tuesday.The Middle East remained the most repressive region in the world and Africa sustained the most significant decline, the report said after examining political and civil ...

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UNESCO is suspending a life sciences prize sponsored by Equatorial Guinea, and is to review procedures for prizes it endorses, following bitter protests about the US$3 million endowment.