#equatorial-guinea

#equatorial-guinea

The African country filed a case at the International Court of Justice in 2022, alleging France is violating international law by refusing to return assets seized during a corruption investigation into Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, a vice president of Equatorial Guinea and the son of long-serving President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mbasogo. Equatorial Guinea asked the court for a series of urgent orders, known as provisional measures, to return the swanky mansion on one of Paris's most prestigious streets, Avenue Foch,

No one around him knows who he is, where he comes from, or what he went through to get there. Just a month ago, Cartagena led the celebrations at the Circulo de Bellas Artes cultural center for the third anniversary of the Republic of Annobon, a small island of 6.5 square miles and about 5,000 inhabitants, whose declaration of independence from Equatorial Guinea has yet to be recognized by any country.