Teodoro Obiang News

The provisional result was just short of Obiang's 2002 score of 97.1% and will come as little surprise to analysts and critics who noted the lack of credible rivals, and the lack of access to the elections for foreign media.

Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has said he is ready to pardon an exiled opponent sentenced in absentia to 62 years in prison over a failed coup attempt.

So confident is President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of the outcome of Equatorial Guinea's election on Sunday that he expects to win by the same margin as in 2002 - with 97.1 percent of the vote, reports Le Pays of Ouagadougou.

Elections being held Sunday in Equatorial Guinea, home to a government ranked as one of the world's most corrupt, are unfair, critics say.

Voting began in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday in a poll expected to hand President Teodoro Obiang Nguema a new mandate to rule the oil-producing central African nation.

The Daily Telegraph claims the Conservatives have taken a commanding lead in the battleground seats that will decide the next general election.

Friday, November 27, 2009 at 8:55 a.m. / AP FILE - In this Friday, July 25, 2008 file photo, Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema is seen through reflections in a car window, following the end of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community summit in Lisbon, Portugal.

Conditions in Equatorial Guinea cast serious doubt about the credibility of the forthcoming presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today.

IF you want to win elections, you must be fair to the poor. - Bishop Zephania Kameeta of the ELCRN, President of the Council of Churches in Namibia, calling for the implementation of the BIG PEOPLE demand a TV, not a toilet, because it is not aspirational or charismatic.

Johannesburg - Niek du Toit's wrists still bear the scars of the handcuffs that were so tightly fastened they cut to the bone.

In spite of the fact that blogging here has been sporadic, I can't let this story in the New York Times go without notice.

In this Thursday, June 19, 2008 file photo, British ex-military officer Simon Mann, front right, accused of masterminding a failed coup plot, sits with other defendants at the start of the third day of trial proceedings, at a conference center in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

An expensive round of score-settling and legal cases among the purported financiers and conspirators behind the 2004 coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is likely to be the immediate outcome of the release of convicted plotter Simon Mann, a dual British and South Africannational, in Malabo on 2 November.

Simon Mann, the leader of the "Wonga Coup" that sought to oust Teodoro Obiang from power in Equatorial Guinea in March 2004, has been pardoned and is returning to the United Kingdom.

FREED mercenary Simon Mann celebrated his homecoming with wife Amanda yesterday and thanked well-wishers for their 'warmth' since his early release from an African jail.

Mercenaries a headache for Equitorial Guinea, but useful as pawns, writes Mandy Rossouw.

Photograph: Anna Zieminski/AFP/Getty Images Documents detailing Sir Mark Thatcher's alleged involvement in the botched coup in Equatorial Guinea are among evidence being examined by Scotland Yard.

Four South Africans pardoned by Equatorial Guinea for a failed coup in 2004 will not face local criminal charges when they return home, the Justice Ministry said on Thursday.

Photograph: Yonus Mohamed/AP The British mercenary Simon Mann today vowed to testify in court against Sir Mark Thatcher and the oil tycoon Eli Calil, the two men he alleges were co-conspirators in the failed attempt to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004.

A chronology of key events : 1471 - Portuguese navigator Fernao do Po sights the island of Fernando Poo, which is now called Bioko.