Equatorial Guinea

  Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born 5 June 1942) is an Equatoguinean politician who has been President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979. He ousted his uncle, Francisco Macías Nguema, in an August 1979 military coup and has overseen Equatorial Guinea's emergence as an important oil producer, beginning in the 1990's. Obiang was Chairperson of the African Union from … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Africa’s Worst Dictators