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

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