Equatorial Guinea News

Children at a public fountain in Malabo wait for the daily arrival of water. UN estimates less than half of the population has access to clean drinking water MALABO, 6 October 2008 - Equatorial Guinea is one of ...

The respected Lonely Planet travel guide describes diminutive Equatorial Guinea as a slowly developing speck of a country that has few tourist attractions aside from its shorelines and jungle interior.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 Blog Logs Saturday's Blog Logs , represent a good sample of what DXers are hearing on shortwave.

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc will receive two liquefied natural gas cargoes at its import terminal in India this month and next, according to transmissions from ships captured by AISLive on Bloomberg.

Listen to the report Eight asylum-seekers in Belgium are dicing with death after going for 80 days without food because of the government's refusal to grant them residence permits.

South Africa has plummeted 11 places in a global corruption survey that has seen Denmark, Sweden and New Zealand ranked as the least corrupt countries in the world and Somalia as the most.

Uganda's corruption ranking has dropped significantly in the past one year. Uganda slipped from position 111 to 126 among 180 countries surveyed by Transparency International, an international corruption ...

A $12 billion Liquefied Natural Gas project is to be established at Tom Short Island in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom.

News, analysis and information on export controls, customs law, the FCPA, antidumping and other international trade issues.

If you're out of town for the Jewish high holidays of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, and you're looking for a place to observe and worship, the Chabad-Lubavitch organization says it is sponsoring services in ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he has appointed the recently departed legal chief of the United Nations as his Special Adviser and Mediator to assist in resolving the continuing maritime ...

The trade in bushmeat in Central Africal is in danger of wiping out a significant number of animal species within 50 years, conservationists have warned.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 Blog Logs Today's shortwave BLOG LOGS , represent a portion of additional logs recently cut from my SWBC Logs column in Monitoring Times, due to space constraints.

THIRTY foreigners, mainly from West Africa, who had come to Zimbabwe to join in the diamond rush in the Chiadzwa area in Manicaland have been deported by immigration authorities in the past two months.

Bioko is an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, part of Equatorial Guinea.

Dj vu: Lady Thatcher swings her handbag The new Lady Thatcher, Sarah Russell, Sir Mark's new wife, has inherited a penchant for the handbag.

Iain Martin has a quite brilliant line in his column today on Charles Clarke and his plotting : "If this is an attempted coup, it is shaping up to be the most badly organised since Simon Mann looked at ...

In advance of a planned tribute, the Westport Historical Society is trying to locate descendants of the Stevens family, which has ties to the town going back to the 19th century.

The exiled opposition leader of Equatorial Guinea has spoken for the first time about his role in a failed plot to overthrow the president of the oil rich west African nation.