Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
Obiang family wages internecine legal battles from Dubai to Madrid to Malabo

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Equatorial Guinea
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
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.

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
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 Guinea
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.

Equatorial Guinea
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.

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
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.

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
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
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.

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
Teodorin Obiang liability sends oil firms packing

Equatorial Guinea's minister of mines, industry and energy Gabriel Obiang Lima is finding it hard to secure takers for the 25 new offshore blocks as oil firms loose trust in the stability of the regime.

Equatorial Guinea
Antonio Engonga Oburu's mysterious departure from GEPetrol

Appointed head of the state-owned oil firm in 2015 Antonio Engonga Oburu Ondo, aka Tony Oburu, suddenly quit his post [...]

Equatorial Guinea
First lady picks out pals to govern oil sector

The oil minister and son of the president is having to put up with members of his mother-in-law's clan as she works to promote her own son, Teodoro.