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Spain’s National High Court on Tuesday decided to close a probe into three people, including the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president.  Carmelo Ovono Obiang, son of President Teodoro Obiang, was accused of kidnapping four members of the Movement for the Liberation of Equatorial Guinea (MLGE3R) who opposed Obiang’s government, in 2019. The Spanish court stated [...]

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The number of judicial executions recorded globally in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years, according to Amnesty International’s annual review of the death penalty, released Monday. Excluding the untold thousands believed to have taken place in China, a total of 883 executions were recorded across 20 countries, marking a 53% increase from the [...]

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A UK court Thursday ordered Swiss multi-national commodity trading and mining firm Glencore to pay a £280 million ($400 million) fine after a UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation revealed the company paid over $29 million in bribes to gain preferential access to oil in Africa. Glencore pleaded guilty to seven counts of bribery in [...]

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A subsidiary of Swiss multi-national commodity trading and mining firm Glencore Tuesday pleaded guilty in a UK court to seven counts of bribery. Glencore Energy (UK) Ltd admitted to bribing African oil officials to gain preferential access to oil. The charges were initially raised as a part of a joint investigation with UK, US and [...]

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The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) of Gambia Thursday delivered its report to President Adama Barrow. The report, while not indicting anyone specifically, recommends prosecutions for anyone who was associated with atrocities committed during Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years in the presidency. The report itself has not yet been released publicly. The report, which details systemic [...]

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The Paris Court of Appeals fined the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodorin Obiang, $32.9 million on Monday. Obiang, the son of the long sitting President of the country, was found guilty back in 2017 but his three-year jail sentence and $32.9 million fine were suspended after a long investigation and contentions over what property [...]

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Seven human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch , on Thursday denounced the government of Equatorial Guinea for arresting Enrique Asumu and Alfredo Okenve, activists who lead the Center for Development Studies and Initiatives (CEID) [advocacy...

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Gambian lawmakers on Tuesday ended a state of emergency and revoked the extension of power for Yahya Jammeh, who lost in the last election. Jammeh was defeated in a December election by Adama Barrow . The state of emergency...

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