(MENAFN) Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared his intention to run for a seventh term in the 2026 elections, potentially extending his nearly four-decade-long rule to almost 50 years. Known for his strong opposition to Western influence...
House Chairperson, Honourable Members, We’re tabling a budget today, just over a year since the formation of the GNU. We continue to make progress in our international relations work. Honourable Members, I have just returned from Sevilla in Spain,...
The Government of the Republic of South Africa welcomes the release of Mr Peter Shane Huxham and Mr Frederic Potgieter from detention in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. This release follows the granting of clemency by the President of...
(MENAFN) The United States intends to widen its controversial travel restrictions to citizens from 36 additional countries, with 25 of them located in Africa, according to an internal State Department memo reported by The Washington Post over the...
In 2000, Africa had no billionaires. Today it has 23 whose combined wealth has soared by 56% in just the past five years, reaching a staggering $112.6 billion. Africa’s richest 5% hold nearly $4 trillion in wealth – more than double the combined...
(MENAFN) Equatorial Guinea has launched a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in an effort to block the sale of a luxury mansion in Paris, which the West African nation says it intends to reclaim, according to the court on Friday. The...
(MENAFN) President Donald Trump has implemented a travel ban affecting nationals from seven African countries — Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan — citing terrorism risks and high visa overstay...
(MENAFN) Rwanda has announced its exit from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) following rising tensions over its alleged involvement in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). The decision came...
(MENAFN) In a move citing national security threats, former U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation barring citizens from a dozen nations from entering the United States. The measure, announced on a Wednesday, also introduced limited...
(MENAFN) U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a new proclamation barring citizens from 12 countries, including Iran, Afghanistan, and Yemen, from entering the United States. The full travel ban, which will take effect on June 9, cites national...
Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), July 10 (SPS) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Affairs, Mr. Mohamed Yeslem Beissat, is participating today, Thursday, in the proceedings of the 47th session of the African Union Executive Council in Malabo,...
• On July 3, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) released a statement on the passage of the Republican reconciliation bill. Carbajal voted against the bill, while opposing its unprecedented cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and food...
Micha this year celebrates a decade of transformation, energy, resolve, determination and vigour to push the narrative associated with Equatorial Guinea. HARARE –All across Africa it is a general understand among scholar, academics and the media...
(MENAFN- APO Group) H.E. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea today received H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the @_AfricanUnion Commission&his accompanying delegation that included Deputy Chairperson...
According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seen by VerAngola, the Angolan leader arrived in the capital of Equatorial Guinea this Wednesday. At this session – to be held on the 10th and 11th of this month at the Sipopo...
July 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday met the presidents of five African nations -- Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon -- in what the White House describes as a push to deepen trade, including that involving...
Introduction On 19 May 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered judgment in Land and Maritime Delimitation and Sovereignty over Islands (Gabon/Equatorial Guinea). The Court relied on a 1900 boundary treaty between the Parties’...
The post 1990 return of democracy in Africa skipped many countries that had established successful dictatorships that stood firm. In Equatorial Guinea, the 82-year-old dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has been in power since 1979, making...
(MENAFN) Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared his intention to run for a seventh term in the 2026 elections, potentially extending his nearly four-decade-long rule to almost 50 years. Known for his strong opposition to Western influence...
Leaders and investors convened in Malabo this weekend to advance the Africa Heritage Fund for Infrastructure (AHFI) and its “Operation One Dollar a Day” initiative. The proposal aims to mobilize 50 million Africans and global supporters to...
