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The president of Equatorial Guinea is the head of state of Equatorial Guinea, a country in the Gulf of Guinea. The president has formal presidency over the Council of Ministers and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Equatorial Guinea. Francisco Macías Nguema was the first person to hold the office, taking effect on 12 October 1968.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Spanish pronunciation: [teoˈðoɾo oˈβjaŋɡ eŋˈɡema embaˈsoɣo]; born 5 June 1942) is an Equatoguinean politician, dictator, and former military officer who has served as the second president of Equatorial Guinea since 1982. [1]
Equatorial Guinea, [a] officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, [b] is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea , its post-independence name refers to its location near both the Equator and in the African region of Guinea .
This article lists the prime ministers of Equatorial Guinea, a country in the Gulf of Guinea. The prime minister of Equatorial Guinea is a member of the Council of Ministers, which is chaired by the president. Bonifacio Ondó Edu was the first person to hold the preceding office of prime minister of Spanish Guinea, taking effect on 15 December ...
Statisticians were also heavily repressed, and as a consequence, little economic data was generated on Equatorial Guinea during the 1970s. When the Equatorial Guinean director of the Institute of Statistics, Saturnin Antonio Ndongo, published demographic data considered too low by Macías, he was dismembered to "help him learn to count". [5] [72]
Equatorial Guinea have qualified for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations without kicking a ball after Togo were beaten in their penultimate Group E qualifier on Wednesday. The Sparrowhawks needed to ...
Signing of the independence of Equatorial Guinea by the then Spanish minister Manuel Fraga together with the new Equatorial Guinean president Macías Nguema on October 12, 1968. In March 1968, under pressure from Equatoguinean nationalists and the United Nations , Spain announced that it would grant independence to Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinea in 2007 rolled out an industrialization plan, National Plan Horizon 2020 for the country aimed at a sustainable economy by 2020. [16] Attempts at its implementation saw a partnership with Energy Allied International, a Houston based firm, to advance the petrochemical sector of the country under the leadership of Mbega, then Minister Delegate of the Ministry of Mines, Industry ...