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CAF
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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
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Completion
time
is 27-31 months, it added. (1 usd = 6.85 yuan)
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British mercenary faces trial over
African coup plot |
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British mercenary Simon Mann
will go on trial in Equatorial Guinea next week for
allegedly leading a failed 2004 coup, it was revealed
today. The Eton-educated |
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former
special forces officer, was charged with crimes against
the state, government and the peace and independence of
the West African country.
He was arrested four years ago in Zimbabwe along with 70
other alleged mercenaries en route to the oil-rich
nation and was extradited in February.Mann, 55,
whose father George Mann, captained the England cricket
team in the late 1940s and was heir to the Watney Mann,
is being held in Malabo's notorious Black Beach prison.
During a TV interview in March he was forced to |
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amit plotting to kill
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled the ex-Spanish colony since 1979. |
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Bafana in must win
clash
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Johannesburg
- Bafana Bafana head coach Joel
Santana knows that it is win or
bust
when he leads the national side
against
Equatorial
Guinea
in what could be a tricky 2010
African
Nations Cup qualifier at
Atteridgeville's Super
Stadium
on Saturday. Kick-off is at 3pm.
Bafana lost their opening
Group
Four clash 2-0 away to
Nigeria
last |
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Sunday
while Equatorial Guinea
got their qualifying
campaign off to a
winning start at home by
beating the other side
in.
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Noble Energy Announces Block I
Well Results in Equatorial Guinea |
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Noble Energy,
Inc. announces a successful test in Block
"I" offshore Equatorial Guinea. The 'I-4'
well, which is on trend with the Belinda
discovery on Block "O" offshore
Equatorial Guinea, encountered a high
quality Miocene reservoir that, when tested,
yielded flow rates of 1,634 barrels per day
of condensate and 28.9 million cubic feet
per day of natural gas, or approximately
6,450 barrels of oil equivalent per day (based
upon a natural gas to crude oil
conversion ratio of 6 |
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to
1), with production rates
limited by test equipment.The
'I-4' well, located in 2,226
feet (678 meters) of water and
seven miles (11.2 kilometers)
southwest of the original
Belinda discovery in Block "O"
was successfully drilled to its
objective at a total depth of
9,721 feet (2,963 meters). The
well was the final of the
six-well program drilled by the
Songa Saturn drillship on behalf
of Noble Energy. |
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PA Resources Completes Drilling of Appraisal
Well In Equatorial Guinea
Wednesday, May
14, 2008 The drilling of the appraisal well
I-5 has been completed on the Benita
structure in Block I in Equatorial Guinea.
Noble Energy Announces Global Resource
Estimates and Continued West Africa Drilling
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Equatorial Guinea leader gets 99 of 100
seats
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MALABO - The ruling party
of hardline President Teodoro Obiang Nguema
and his allies obtained 99 of 100 seats in
parliamentary
elections
in
Equatorial
Guinea
this week, according to official results
Friday. The president's
Democratic
Party of Equatorial Guinea also swept the
board in parallel local elections last
Sunday in the west
African
state, said the national electoral
commission. |
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Spanish Journalists
Denied Visas to Enter Country to Cover
Elections |
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The
International Federation of
Journalists
(IFJ)... |
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Equatorial
Guinea strongman spends heavily on election
Turkish Press
2008-05-09
File
photo
shows
Equatorial
Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Mbasogo. A lot of
money
is being spent in the name of the president
who has ruled oil-rich Equatorial
Guinea
with an iron fist since taking...
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Equatorial
Guinea votes amid opposition complaints
Mail Guardian
South Africa
2008-05-09
The West
African
state of
Equatorial
Guinea
voted on Sunday in
elections
expected to be won yet again by the veteran
hardline president amid opposition charges
of voting irregularities and harassment. The...
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Equatorial Guinea votes amid opposition complaints |
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The West
African state of
Equatorial
Guinea voted on Sunday in
elections
expected to be won yet again by the veteran hardline president amid
opposition charges of voting irregularities and harassment. The
oil-rich state went to the polls in local and general elections whose
results were for observers a foregone conclusion, with the party of
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema expected to win as he has...
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Legislative |
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Voting has taken place peacefully in oil-rich
Equatorial
Guinea for legislative and municipal
elections
in which the ruling party of long-time president Teodoro Obiang Nguema
is expected to dominate. But as VOA's Nico Colombant reports from the
capital Malabo, many citizens had other priorities on voting day. While
polling centers opened slowly, many of the capital's poorest residents
focused on... |
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Press freedom has
declined worldwide: researchers |
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WASHINGTON,
April 29: Worldwide, the environment for
journalists grew more hostile last year,
extending a six-year downturn, US
researchers reported on Tuesday
Still, the
US-backed country was not listed among the
worst countries for press freedom. The
worst-rated country was North Korea, while
Burma was second with a worsening crackdown
in the media. Cuba, Libya, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Belarus, Zimbabwe and Equatorial
Guinea were also among the worst-rated. |
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DNA
tests, coupled with Internet, connect
relatives
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BALTIMORE
- When the
paper
trail that Raymond A.
Winbush followed in
search
of his
African
roots ended at a
slave-holding
Kentucky
plantation, he turned to
a combination of modern
technologies:
genetic
testing and
online
social
networking. It worked. A
DNA test traced his
ancestry to tribes in
Cameroon
and
Equatorial
Guinea,
while an online forum
set up by the company
that scanned his DNA put
him...
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ISRAEL-OPT: West Bank
farmers face ruin after trees uprooted
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web
Photo: Shabtai Gold/IRIN
JEET,
WEST BANK,, 27 April
2008 (IRIN) - It was
difficult for
87-year-old Jamil Khader
to discover that nearly
all of the 1,400 olive
trees his extended
family planted in
February had suddenly
gone missing, having
been uprooted and
stolen. "He became very
ill when I told him. He
was hospitalised and was
in bed for a week," his
son Khalil, from the
small town of Jeet in...
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Deals of the day --
mergers and acquisitions |
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(Adds Devon, JPMorgan, Cisco and Philips)April 8 (Reuters) - The following
bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals
involving European, U.S. and Asian companies
were reported by 2000 GMT on Tuesday. |
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** Devon Energy
Corp said it had agreed to sell
its Equatorial Guinea oil and
gas assets for $2.2 billion to
GEPetrol, the national oil
company of Equatorial Guinea.
** JPMorgan Chase & Co completed
the first stage of its planned
acquisition of Bear Stearns Cos
Inc by gaining a 39.5 percent
stake in its beleaguered rival.
** Cisco Systems Inc said it
will buy the remaining
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stake in its majority-owned unit Nuova
Systems, and unveiled new network switches
they co-developed for corporate data
centers. |
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