Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue

Equatorial Guinea abolishes death penalty

Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue announced that the central African nation has abolished the death penalty, calling it a “unique moment.”

Death toll from accidental explosions in Equatorial Guinea rises

The blasts on Sunday, involving ammunition stocks and explosives at the camp in the country's economic hub Bata, devastated buildings at the compound and houses in surrounding residential areas.

Deadly blasts in Equatorial Guinea kill at least 20, wound hundreds

Footage broadcast by the TVGE channel showed buildings burned and flattened in a wide radius around the Nkoa Ntoma camp in the economic capital Bata, with a thick plume of black smoke rising into the sky.