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Obiang family wages internecine legal battles from Dubai to Madrid to Malabo

Vice President Teodorin Obiang Nguema is continuing to systematically sideline any family member who is resistant to him taking over the top job. The brother of first lady Candido Nsue Okomo has even been arrested in his exile in Dubai. [...] (578 words)

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Alfonso Barnuevo
Candido Nsue Okomo
Constancia Mangue Nsue Obiang
Gabriel Obiang Lima
GEPetrol
International Court of Justice
Jeffrey Epstein
José Manuel Villarejo
Simeón Oyono Esono
Teodorin Obiang Nguema
Teodoro Biyogo Nsue Okomo
Teodoro Obiang Nguema

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DR CONGO - Trésor Mputu moves from football to politics
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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Politics 31/08/2022

Ill-gotten gains scandal sticks to Teodorin ahead of 2023 election

Tensions are running high between the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and European leaders over a corruption case involving ill-gotten gains. But the affair has also turned into useful ammunition for Malabo against Teodorin Obiang Nguema as next year's general election looms.

Vice President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue gestures while arriving at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, for the inauguration of Incumbent South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 25, 2019.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Diplomacy 20/09/2021

First lady talks to Madrid to avert her brother Candido's extradition

Constancia Mangue Nsue Obiang has urged Equatorial Guinea's foreign minister to take action to prevent the extradition of Candido Nsue Okomo, the former GEPetrol boss and the main defendant in Spain in the so-called Villarejo affair.

The first lady of Equatorial Guinea Constancia Mangue Nsue Obiang.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Politics 24/08/2021

First lady's brother Candido Nsue Okomo seeks new hideout as Villarejo trial looms

Feeling increasingly vulnerable in Dubai, the former chairman of Equatorial Guinea's national oil company has fled the United Arab Emirates.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Diplomacy 21/07/2021

Obiang's diplomatic relations with Europe at all-time low

The Equatorial Guinean president has yet to respond to a request for accreditation from the EU's new ambassador to Malabo as European states close their embassies in the country one after the other. Only France and Spain have resisted the pressure and kept their representation there.

Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Politics 07/04/2021

Spanish magistrates won't let up on first lady's brother Candido Nsue Okomo

A Madrid court has locked into another tug-of-war with Malabo to force the nephew of the current vice-president to testify in Europe.

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Politics 17/02/2021

First lady's brother Candido Nsue Okomo caught between Spanish judges and UAE authorities

The former Equatorial Guinean minister is not likely to be free of his legal problems any time soon. He has been put under house arrest in Dubai and the Spanish authorities are continuing to do their utmost to question him about the Villarejo affair.

Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang and his Gabonese counterpart Ali Bongo, in 2019. © Présidence de la République gabonaise

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA GABON Diplomacy 09/02/2021

Obiang and Bongo compete for Saudi funds

Covid oil blues prompt Malabo and Libreville's ruling families to seek help from the Gulf.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Defence Business 05/02/2021

Teodorin and his military cooperation chief attend Aero India 2021

An Equatorial Guinean Ministry of Defence delegation was given a grand ceremonial welcome by the organisers of the Aero India 2021 aerospace and defence exhibition, which opened in Bangalore on 3 February.

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. © Ludovic Marin/Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Politics 25/01/2021

How the opposition got entangled in the Obiang family's Dallas-style war in Malabo

The legal action taken against the first lady's brother in Dubai has torn apart President Teodoro Obiang Nguema's family but also further weakened the opposition to the Equatorial Guinean regime. This is how it all happened.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Politics 15/01/2021

Saga of first lady Constancia, son Teodorin and brother Candido continues

The subject of a Spanish arrest warrant, the ex-minister Candido Nsue Okomo has been rescued by his sister, who is also the wife of the Equatorial Guinean president.

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Energy 16/12/2020

Teodorin's latest ploy to acquire Zafiro from ExxonMobil

Malabo is being very creative in its efforts to get hold of the country's largest oil field, which the American major ExxonMobil is very keen to ditch.

The Equatorial Guinean vice-president Teodorin Obiang Nguema, presumptive successor of his father as head of state. © Joédson Alves/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA UNITED STATES Politics 16/11/2020

The late financier Jeffrey Epstein's secret friendship with Teodorin Obiang

A friend of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, the late American wealth manager, who was under investigation for sexual trafficking when he died in August 2019, also had regular dealings with Equatorial Guinean vice president Teodorin Obiang Nguema.

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Energy 28/10/2020

Total fears for its petroleum products business after Teodorin Obiang greenlights new refinery

A plan to build a new modular refinery, which is due to come into operation in 2022-2023, threatens to put an end to Total's virtual monopoly on Equatorial Guinea's petroleum products business.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Energy 09/09/2020

VP Teodorin Obiang's oil ministry reshuffle gambit backfires

Having largely provoked the latest changes to the cabinet line-up, President Tedodoro Obiang Nguema's favourite child and presumed successor failed to persuade his father to go with his choices.

Teodorin Obiang Nguema has already been designated by the Obiang family to succeed his father as the country's president. © DR

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Politics 08/09/2020

Obiang family member Candido Nsue Okomo driven into exile for opposing Teodorin's power grab

If they oppose the vice president's bid for his father's "throne", even Obiang family members are pressured into finding other ways of occupying themselves...far from Equatorial Guinea.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Energy 21/08/2020

Why oil minister Gabriel Obiang is furious about PM Obama Asue's reappointment

The reappointment of Obama Asue as prime minister following the resignation of the government is a new demonstration of the growing power of vice president and president in waiting Obiang Nguema.

Equatorial Guinean prime minister Francisco Pascual Obama Asue.

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Politics 23/07/2020

First lady accelerates made-to-measure succession for Teodorin

As the strength of family patriarch Teodoro Obiang Nguema wanes, his wife Constancia is setting up the political mechanisms which will enable their son Teodorin to take his place as president.

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA Energy 23/07/2019

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