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Conditions in Equatorial Guinea cast serious doubt about the credibility of the forthcoming presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today.
Confidential U.S. government documents uncovered by campaign group Global Witness and reported on in today's New York Times, strongly suggest that Teodorin Obiang, son of the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, purchased a $33 million private jet, a $35 million Malibu mansion, speedboats and a fleet of fast cars using corruptly acquired funds.
IF SIR Mark Thatcher was the son of an African ruler his conduct would confirm the worst prejudices of the west. Instead, as the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, he is mostly regarded as a wayward, mildly dim embarrassment.
Government is satisfied by the agreement reached between Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) recently, says International Relations and Cooperation Director General, Ayanda Ntsaluba.
An expensive round of score-settling and legal cases among the purported financiers and conspirators behind the 2004 coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is likely to be the immediate outcome of the release of convicted plotter Simon Mann, a dual British and South African national, in Malabo on 2 November.
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