Quick Glance: Brice Nguema Sworn in as President
- General Nguema is reportedly a cousin of the toppled president
- The general has some support - cheering civilians attended his inauguration
- Gabon has been suspended from the African Union following the coup, condemned by the UN and France
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Teodoro Obiang has won a sixth term as president in Equatorial Guinea.
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Quick facts about Africa's longest-serving president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
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Quick Glance: Equatorial Guinea repeals the death penalty statute
- Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death sentence, according to state television, citing a new law signed by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
- The act, which was authorized in advance by parliament, will go into effect 90 days after it is published in the official state newspaper.
- Equatorial Guinea joins the Central African Republic in May 2022, Chad in 2020, and Sierra Leone last year in the African continent's recent moratorium on death punishment.
- President Obiang, 80, has been in charge for more than 43 years, a global record when monarchs are excluded.
Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty after the country’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signed a new penal code into law ... Show more