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Lagos — Equatorial Guinea yesterday fingered the Niger Delta militants as the masterminds of the armed attack on its presidential palace.
The attack was said to have been aimed at destroying and subverting the country's government.
Equatorial Guinea is the third oil-producing state in the Gulf of Guinea with a long history of bad governance and authoritarian rule under President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in the past three decades.
Reuters, a news agency quoted the government as alleging that the attackers came from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, an area that had suffered a high incidence of seaborne insurgent attacks, kidnapping and attempts to wreck off-shore oil installation in the last two years.
The agency reported that gunmen, who stormed Malabo in several gunboats, attacked the presidential palace from the country's territorial waters around which Equatorial Guinea shared maritime boundary with Nigeria.
According to the government of Equatorial Guinea "our country was once again the victim of an attack by the rebels of the Niger Delta on the city of Malabo. The Niger Delta crisis is now a major threat to our country.
"A contingent of rebel terrorists from the Niger Delta arrived in numerous boats and tried to invade the capital city of Malabo, with the aim of taking and destroying the presidential palace" .
The country also added that one of the attackers was shot dead while another group drowned when their boat was sunk by the Navy.
President Mbasogo was in Bata, the country's mainland, when the gunmen launched the armed attack yesterday.
Although the government said the gunmen had tried to seize the presidential palace, Foreign Ministry of Spain said the attack appeared to be criminal in nature, rather than an attempted coup d'etat.
Government also denounced the attack in its statement as nothing more than the "usual manoeuvres of our external enemies" and called on the population to be patriotic and collaborate with the armed forces to denounce those who might be suspicious.
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hello my fellow African, writing this should be a embarrasing for me, hear about what happened in Equatorial Guinea is a shame as African, I do congratulate the goverment of our neighboring Nigeria for what it has demostrated over this tremendous and satanic attack on Equatorial Guinea, I do congratulate the forces of security of Equatorial Guinea, and call for the co-operation amongst the countries: have a look at the Midle-East and you can find smallest countries living in peace despite of their oil, and no one concerns about that, when we trying to move forward then things like this and other parts of Africa are suffring, despite that most of us have been in the prison that our gods put us while they were building their kingdoml, and most of our grandfathers, people with certain amount of knowledge were forced to cross the the river which is impossible for us now, so after been freed from that prison, insteadof reunify as people with the same color, same race and the same suffring, we become enemies each others, killing our brothers while we have meetings with our formers gods, we buy arms from them just for shoot our own brothers, alleging to get what you call your people in the good live " who do you kill who do you want for stay alive?" is the philosofy of selfish and inward-lookig, the best is to eat a dot of bred on bed than eating it under the bed, it means that being poor u can eat your bred then sleep in the peace moments than a hum in wartime, Africa should not turn back, leave the one who wants to stay in power as a kingdom, leave them, when they will tire, they will resigne. if it is not the subject will force them to leave the spun, the table and the seat, the importan thing is "PEACE" let it to be! some want can lie you about your goverment and ask for action, bringing you weapons, the only thing he realy wants, is to keep you backward, i do dream that one day we will be also to use our own minds. so that no one can come and deserve us as they do now, full support with peolple of Equatorial Guinea their Goverment and other African nations that are also suffring from these barbaric actions, LET US BE IN THIS WORLD THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK BELONGS TO THEM... FORGET THE WEAPONS THEY ACT ONLY ON ANIMALS, AND AS YOU KNOW WE ARE NOT ANIMALS, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EACH OTHER IN MILLON WAYS, ONE LOVE, ONE CONTINENT! ONE LOVE ONE PEOPLE! ONE LOVE ONE SUFFRING!.... FROM YOUR FELLOW AFRICAN WHO HAS OUR ANCESTORS' DREAMS, get contact with me on carmelo500@hotmail.com