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Did the African Union made a mistake by selection Teodoro Obiang Nguema as Chairman?

Did the African Union made a mistake by selection Teodoro Obiang Nguema as Chairman?

MALABO, January 31, 2011 (AFP) – Equatorial Guinea’s main opposition leader Monday slammed the appointment of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema as the African Union’s new chairman. ”The African Union doesn’t care about what the people of Equatorial Guinea are going through,” Placido Mico, head of the Convergence for Social Democracy, told AFP. ”There is no liberty in [...]

Teodoro Obiang Nguema set to become the new African Union Chairman

Teodoro Obiang Nguema set to become the new African Union Chairman

ADDIS ABABA, January 28, 2011 (AFP) – Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been lined up to assume the revolving chairmanship of the African Union at a summit this weekend, a senior AU source told AFP on Friday. ”It’s established, unless something really out of the ordinary happens at the last minute, that Equatorial Guinea [...]