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Zimbabwe:
Equatorial
Guinea Joins Cholera Fight
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EQUATORIAL GUINEA has donated a
consignment of 57 tonnes of drugs and water treatment
chemicals to Zimbabwe to assist in the fight against
cholera.Equatorial Guinea Deputy Foreign Minister Mr
Jose Esono Micha handed the first 40 tonnes
of the consignment to Health and Child
Welfare Deputy Minister Dr Douglas
Mombeshora and the ministry's permanent
secretary, Dr Gerald Gwinji, at Harare
International Airport yesterday.Mr Micha --
who earlier paid a courtesy call on
President Mugabe at Zimbabwe House and
delivered a special |
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message from President
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo -- flew into
Harare with the consignment yesterday. He said
after reports that Zimbabwe had been hit by a
cholera outbreak, Equatorial Guinea felt obliged
to assist Harare as a friend
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Nigeria:
Maduekwe
Visits Equatorial Guinea Over Attack
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Nigeria 's Foreign Affairs Minister
Ojo Maduekwe during the week visited President Theodore
Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea over the recent attack on
the presidential palace in Malabo. |
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Central Africa:
Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea Border Sealed
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Maritime
transactions between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea have
reportedly been halted since Tuesday, February 17,
following attacks by unidentified armed men at President
Obiang Nguema's Presidential lodge in the capital city
of Malabo. |
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Nigeria Says Delta
Militants May Have Been Involved in Equatorial Guinea
Attack
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Nigerian
Foreign
Minister
Ojo Maduekwe (file photo)Nigeria says it is conceivable
that militants from its
Niger
Delta may have been behind Tuesday's attack on
Equatorial
Guinea's presidential palace. Foreign...
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Delta militants may
be behind Guinea raid
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By Felix Onuah Abuja -
Militants from the
Niger
Delta or foreign mercenaries may have been behind an
attack on
Equatorial
Guinea's presidential palace, Nigeria's foreign
minister
said on Wednesday. Gunmen in...
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Shootout reported
near presidential palace in Equatorial Guinea's capital
of Malabo
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MALABO,
Equatorial
Guinea
(AP) — Gunmen clashed with security forces near the
presidential palace in Equatorial Guinea early Tuesday
but officials said it did not appear to be a coup
attempt in the...
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CAF
officials lament shoddy services at AWC |
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There
seems to be no end in sight to the poor
organization, which has characterised the
sixth edition of the African Women
Championship (AWC) currently going on in two
centers in Equatorial Guinea.Ever
since the commencement of the championship
last Saturday, there have been complaints of
poor organisation from players and officials
of the visiting teams, especially in the
areas of transportation, feeding and
accreditation. |
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All
journalists covering the championship have equally been
subjected to various degrees of hardship, as they were
denied such services as accreditation, the use of media
center, mixed zone and press tribune. |
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Sheba hospital suspected of selling know-how to foreign
countries |
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The Health
Ministry became aware of Sheba's extensive ties with
hospitals abroad years after they had begun, according
to documents, letters and memorandums shown to Haaretz.
On December 10, 2007, the deputy director general of
Sheba Medical Center, Dr. Yitzhak Zeidis, detailed the
hospital's activities abroad to Prof. Israeli. According
to Zeidis, the hospital had then ceased training doctors
and nurses for the hospital in Equatorial Guinea.
However, Zeidis told Israeli that Sheba was still
involved in training medical staff and providing
expertise on building hospitals and laboratories to
several countries such as Kazakhstan, the Ivory Coast,
Russia and China. In addition, he said that Sheba
medical staff was in talks regarding providing expertise
to hospitals in Georgia, Ukraine, Hungary, China and
India. |
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Guinea Gulf piracy needs international response-UN |
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The United Nations has called for an international
response to a growing threat from seaborne pirates attacking oil facilities,
ships and towns on or around the coast of West Africa. |
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Western and other nations have already sent warships to fight the pirates
threatening shipping off the Horn of Africa.
But on the other side of the continent, heavily-armed gunmen in fast launches
have in the last year preyed on oil plants, oil and fishing boats and even
coastal towns in a region grouping the main African suppliers of crude oil to
the West and China.Seaborne raiders initially focused on Nigeria's Niger Delta, where militants
are battling the government over oil |
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revenues.But more recently raiders have
robbed banks and confronted security forces in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and
Benin. |
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US
trains Cameroon, Guinea military |
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The
US Navy has trained Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Navy and
Air Force Officers in Search and Rescue Operations. The
exercise is to help Cameroon's Air Force and Navy
officers ability to jointly conduct search and rescue
operations while working with a US Navy P-3 Orion
maritime surveillance aircraft. Search and
Rescue (SAR) classes were given to Cameroon Navy and Air
Force officers at Douala Air Force Base. The SAR mission
flew over |
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Cameroon waters with the
country’s Air Force and Navy riders on board the P-3.At
the end of the exercise, the armed forces of Cameroon
honed their ability to locate a vessel in distress and
rescue survivors utilising a combination of search
aircraft, rescue vessels and their newly fielded
Automatic Identification System (AIS). |
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Dear
Mr. President BUSH |
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I am deeply
concerned that aforementioned statements and actions by you and high
ranking administration officials directly contradict the policy you
articulated in your second inaugural address when you said that the
United States will encourage reform in other governments by making
clear that success in our relation "will require the decent
treatment of their own people." |
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The
government of Equatorial Guinea has an abysmal track
record in the area of human rights, democracy and
transparency. According to this year's Country Reports
on Human Rights, "(t)he government's human rights record
remained poor, and the government continues to commit or
condone serious abuses," including torture by |
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the
security forces, abridgement of citizens' right to
change their government, government and judicial
corruption, and severe restrictions on freedom of the
press.
President Obiang, who took over Equatorial Guinea in a
coup in 1979, has never stood for free and fair
elections. The State Department found that "(t)he 2002
presidential election was marred by extensive fraud and
intimidation," and "the international community widely
criticized the 2004 parliamentary elections as seriously
flawed." |
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Equatorial Guinea: Concerns about the recent trial of
Simon Mann and other co-accused |
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On 7 June
2008, eight people -- including six Equatorial Guineans
and two foreign nationals -- were sentenced to long
prison terms in Equatorial Guinea after a trial that
failed to comply with international standards of fair
trials.
Simon Mann, a British citizen, was convicted of
attempting to commit crimes against the Head of State,
crimes against the government, and crimes against the
peace and independence of Equatorial Guinea in 2004. He
was sentenced to a total of 34 years’ imprisonment.
Simon Mann was released from prison in Zimbabwe in May
2007 after completing a sentence for trying to buy arms
without a licence, and was immediately arrested pending
his extradition to Equatorial Guinea to face the above
charges. |
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China's Sinoma wins 1.45 bln usd Africa cement EPC
contract |
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BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Sinoma International Engineering Co
Ltd (SHA 600970) said it signed equipment, procurement
and construction (EPC)
contracts
covering six |
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cement production lines for Nigeria's
Dangote Industries Ltd worth a combined 1.45
bln usd.
In a statement filed with the Shanghai Stock
Exchange, Sinoma said it will build the
production lines in five African countries -
Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Tanzania
and Zambia.
The production line in Equatorial
Guinea will have a daily capacity of 3,000
tons,while
the rest are
rated
at 6,000 tons, Sinoma said. |
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Completion
time
is 27-31 months, it added. (1 usd = 6.85 yuan)
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