Equatorial Guinea: Journalist Under Arrest

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A journalist in Equatorial Guinea, facing a criminal libel charge over a flawed story, was imprisoned on Wednesday, according to local journalists.

Rodrigo Angüe Nguema, a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, was arrested by a plainclothes security agent at a courthouse in the capital, Malabo, and driven handcuffed to the city's Black Beach Prison, according to local journalist Samuel Obiang Mbana.

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