Equatorial Guinea

The three new chairmen of the Geproyectos Board of Directors, recently appointed by the Presidency of the Republic, were sworn in yesterday before His Excellency Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

The country was elected to hold the Executive Secretariat of the Gulf of Guinea Commission at the Third Extraordinary Summit of Member Countries

The departmental delegation of health and social welfare appeared before the Senate plenary to provide information on the incidence of the Marburg virus and its consequences, as well as steps to contain the disease

The country suspended over 300 fishing vessels for fraudulently flying its flag

Eight more cases of Marburg virus disease have been confirmed, bringing the total to nine since February, when the disease was first declared

President of the Republic Obiang Nguema Mbasogo travelled to Yaoundé, Cameroon, to attend the 15th CEMAC Heads of State Summit

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has started vector control activities with indoor residual spraying in all communities on Bioko Island to reduce malaria transmission through the application of insecticides on the interior walls of houses

Equatorial Guinea's Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons signed three production sharing contracts with Panoro Energy and Africa Oil Corporation

A superyacht and two houses owned by Equatorial Guinea Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang have been seized by South African officials

The country has appointed Manuela Roka Botey as Prime Minister, making her the first woman in the country to hold the position, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled since 1979, announced in a decree read out on state television

Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue ordered the house arrest of his brother and former deputy director of the national airline Ceiba intercontinental 'for the sale of the Atr-72-500 to the Spanish company Binter'

The Constancia Mangue Nsue Okomo Foundation donated wheelchairs to various members of the National Solidarity Association for the Disabled, ASONAMI on the island of Bioko

The Head of State visited the works of the Baney bypass, needed to relieve the heavy traffic