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West African Nation pledged to United Nations agreements on Climate Change, Biological Diversity and Desertification at the UN Rio+20 Conference MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Equatorial Guinea's President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, made a push, last week at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, for his country and the rest of the African continent to adopt specific measures for the implementation of...

West African Nation Joins Conversation on Pathway to Safer, Equitable and Cleaner Environment MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The President of Equatorial Guinea led a delegation to join world leaders, other governments, nongovernmental agencies, international institutions, private-sector organizations and other groups June 20-22, in Rio de Janeiro, for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). "This conference is the...

Favorable conditions for U.S. investment in a modern, diversifying economy. President Obiang seeks U.S. companies for IT, telecoms, fisheries, agribusiness, mining, tourism. HOUSTON, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The government of Equatorial Guinea laid out the welcome mat in Houston Monday for U.S. investments in information technology, telecommunications, fisheries, construction, agriculture and agroindustry, mining and hydrocarbons. Some 200 representatives of...

Exiled Opposition Leader Returns To A Changed Equatorial Guinea Sibacha Bueicheku credits government for reforms and development and urges exiles to return. MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sibacha Bueicheku, chairman of the Union for Democracy and Social Development party and deputy coordinator of the Common Front of the Opposition in Exile, has returned to Equatorial Guinea after living abroad in Spain for 35 years. Bueicheku told local media...

Government Defends Commitment to Upholding Professionalism and Transparency MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an interview with France Africa 24, President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, defending the Government of Equatorial Guinea, stated it maintains strict control of State revenues. "All the money is collected by the State," said President Obiang. "No one can touch that money." He then continued to discuss the various businesses that he and...

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Equatorial Guinea Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, led by Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, recently focused attention on growing and reinforcing the agriculture sector in Equatorial Guinea through a food security program workshop. The Ministry also acknowledged the government's goal of increasing food production in the country. "Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has set food security as...

Ceremony solidifies Equatorial Guinea's new relations with Suriname PARAMARIBO, Suriname, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea has been awarded the Medal of Grand Master of the Honorable Order of the Yellow Star and Carrier of the Sign the Great Order by Suriname's President Desire Delano Bouterse. The presentation of the medal, which is the nation's highest award, took place at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace....

Minister Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue contests "unfounded accusations." Apartment is not privately owned. MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The government of Equatorial Guinea has protested to the French government a raid by French police on an apartment in Paris that is owned by the government of Equatorial Guinea and used for diplomatic purposes. On February 13, police raided an apartment on Avenue Foch in Paris that they believed belonged...

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Equatorial Guinea's Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, recently sponsored student scholarships in agriculture and natural resources management degrees in the Dominican Republic. This was done by Minister Nguema in his role as President of the Youth Federation of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea. "The main goal of going to the Dominican Republic is to obtain higher education....

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry efforts to support local farmers and increase national production, Minister Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue has launched a cocoa sale in support of farmers throughout the country. The National Institute of Agricultural Promotion of Equatorial Guinea (INPAGE), under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, has made available 330 tons...