The International Monetary Fund's executive board will vote in December 2019 on a U.S.$280 million loan agreement with Equatorial Guinea. Rights groups are calling for a postponement, saying the program preceding the loan agreement and planned conditions for the loan, are insufficient to address deep-rooted rights violations, corruption, and related impunity by the government.

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"Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang marks his fortieth year as president, making him the longest-serving president in the world. His four decades in power should not be mistaken as a sign of peaceful stability or prosperity. Human Rights Watch and other independent groups have for years documented the Equatorial Guinean government's relentless repression of civil society and political opposition groups, and the staggering corruption that has siphoned off the country's oil

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As of mid-December there have been more than 500 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, of which two-thirds are women. In Beni - one of the hardest hit areas - it's the women who run the households. They look after the children and they care for the sick. If a mother herself falls sick, she'll hand over her children - who may possibly already also have Ebola - to a neighbour who will mind them along with her own. This is one way the disease has spread...

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Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, has ordered all energy operators in the country to cancel all contracts with U.S. based oil service company Subsea 7. He says the company failed to comply with the government's local content regulations.

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Zimbabwe will maintain its soldiers deployed in Equatorial Guinea to provide security to President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as well as to train the central African country's troops. This is not the first time that Zimbabwe's security forces have been deployed to Equatorial Guinea. The southern African country sent a team of its anti-terrorism unit to Malabo to provide services during the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

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Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo paid a visit to Robert Mugabe at his private residence where the former president says he was increasingly feeling unsafe in Zimbabwe.

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But I believe there's a silver lining to the dark cloud over Africa's politics. African autocrats are slowly being eased out. Incumbents might tinker with the rules of the game, and shift goal posts but they cannot escape the inevitable: Change will come. It's only a matter of when and how, writes David E Kiwuwa for The Conversation Africa.

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Equatorial Guinea is accusing the French government of violating the diplomatic immunity of Vice President Teodorin Obiang after he was found guilty of corruption and money laundering.

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Was there really a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea recently, as reported by the government? Jan Philipp Wilhelm reports for Deutsche Welle.  

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Security minister, Mahamat Zen Cherif, has made a televised statement saying that a group of mercenaries from Chad, Sudan and Central African Republic had tried to infiltrate Equatorial Guinea at the instigation of "certain radical opposition parties."

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