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| Equatorial Guinea: UN Dispatches Envoy Amid Reports of Failed Coup |
| 2018-01-06 |
| [All Africa] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... has said it will send an envoy to Equatorial Guinea after officials there announced that they had thwarted a December 24 coup attempt mounted by foreign mercenaries against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. A front man said Thursday that the UN's West Africa envoy, Francois Louceny Fall, would travel to the capital, Malabo, next week. He said that while "little information" was available about the alleged coup attempt, "we condemn all attempts to seize power unconstitutionally" in the country. Malabo's security minister, Mahamat Zen Cherif, made a televised statement on Wednesday saying that a group of mercenaries from Chad, Sudan and Central African Republic had tried to infiltrate Equatorial Guinea at the instigation of "certain radical opposition parties." Hours after his televised statements, state broadcaster TGVE reported festivities on the border with Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... in which one "mercenary " was killed. Then, on December 27, Cameroon said it placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... 38 heavily gunnies at the border, including an ex-general from the Chadian army. |
| Posted by:Fred |