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...The regimes of Denis Sassou Nguesso, Republic of Congo president who seized power in a 1997 coup; Teodoro Obiang, the world’s longest-serving president who has ruled Equatorial Guinea since ousting his uncle...
...As questions over succession loom, his son and vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (known as Teodorin) has become the country’s de facto leader....
...See Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo or Cambodian Hun Sen. Corporate bosses can be similarly reluctant to hand over the reins, particularly founder-CEOs....
...Like Bullough, Michel masterfully recounts the tragicomic outcomes when outré autocrats meet serviceable financial and legal systems — such as the “dictator bling” of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, son of...
...For overstayers such as Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni (35 years in power) and Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema (42 years), Guinea should be a cautionary tale....
...Instead, Mr Lima’s older brother, Teodoro Nguema Obiang, is viewed as the president in waiting....
...President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has governed the oil-rich country since he took control in a 1979 coup against his uncle, then president, who was subsequently executed....
...Nguema Obiang Mangue....
...The government of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema and members of his family are accused of institutional corruption and human rights violations. “They are massively corrupt,” Mr Conradie said....
...On Wednesday night President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the world’s longest-serving leader, read a decree on television purportedly releasing anyone jailed for political offences in the oil-rich central African...
...In 2014, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, Mr Obiang’s son and vice-president, was obliged to surrender a Malibu mansion and luxury cars in a settlement with US authorities for what they alleged was more than...
...The move is the latest in a tit-for-tat battle between the two countries after French prosecutors this year formally charged the vice president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang, of acquiring real estate, luxury cars...
...However, the political backdrop under President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has been in power since 1979, making him the world’s longest serving non-royal head of state, ensures few people see any...
...Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who is accused of eating his enemies....
...That honour goes to Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, who have both lasted 36 years. Robert Mugabe, who turns 92 this weekend, is not far behind....
...Funding extravagance In 2011 the US sought $80m in assets that it alleged Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, stole and used to fund an extravagant lifestyle — a...
...Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is the embodiment of what theorists call the “resource curse”, the cruel law that condemns those born in the states richest in natural wealth to be among the most wretched of...
...Too many of the continent’s nations still labour under the yoke of seemingly immovable strongmen, including the likes of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea (36 years), Angola’s José Eduardo...
...In what is the first case of its kind in the US targeting the family of a sitting head of state, the US Department of Justice late on Friday announced a deal with Teodoro Nguema Obiang, eldest son of Teodoro...
...Mr Obiang’s son and presumptive heir, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, known as Teodorín, has amassed one of the world’s finest collections of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including the red and black “Thriller...
...Mr Obiang’s son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue – Teodorín to his friends – epitomises the excess....
...The eldest son of the president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang, known locally as Teodorín, is the vice-president in charge of national security. Another son, Gabriel Mbaga Obiang, runs the oil ministry....
...Teodorin, whose father Teodoro Obiang has ruled with an iron fist since seizing power in 1979, denies wrongdoing, and earlier this year described the case against him as “character assassination”....
...The Department of Justice has launched two civil suits seeking the seizure of the assets of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, who is Equatorial Guinea’s agriculture minister....
...Mr Mann, an old Etonian, recently visited the central African country where, until a year ago, he was in prison serving a 34-year sentence for plotting against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, according...
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