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.
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.
BECAUSE coups should generally not be encouraged, we are uncomfortable about the prospect that President Jacob Zuma might have played an important role in the early release of four South African mercenaries who have just been granted amnesty for a failed 2004 coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
President Jacob Zuma's visit to Equatorial Guinea provided a good opportunity for both South Africa and that country to proceed to review different issues relating to bilateral cooperation.
At the invitation of His Exellency OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, His Excellency Jacob ZUMA, President of the Republic of South Africa, carried out a Working Visit to Equatorial Guinea, from the 3rd to the 4th of November, 2009, heading a high-level delegation.
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has confirmed the release of four South Africans by the Equatorial Guinea Government into the custody of the South African Embassy in Malabo.
President Jacob Zuma is due to visit the oil rich Equatorial Guinea today with the aim of strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries.
