Paranoid Paradise: Equatorial Guinea Lives on Edge
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea  - Soldiers in combat  gear cluster at street corners, taxi drivers lower their voices  to ask foreign visitors what is going on in the country, and  oil tankers glide by in the distance.
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By Katharine Houreld in Malabo and Christopher Munnion in Johannesburg. Eight men accused of plotting to overthrow Equatorial Guinea&#39;s government confronted their alleged torturers yesterday in a court in the capital, Malabo.
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ORANGE FARM, South Africa  - By sun-up, Valencia Mofokeng has her modest home in the ramshackle black township near Johannesburg humming like a well-oiled machine.
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The leader of the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, Simon Mann has spent all of his adult life in the murky worlds of special forces and mercenaries.
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Malabo - In addition to lengthty prison sentences, the two key figures in the Equatorial Guinea coup plot trail also received enormous fines.
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LONDON - The British government was given details of an alleged plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, including the names of mercenaries and the expected date of the attack, months in advance, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Equatorial Guinea says it has requested the international arrest of more foreigners it suspected of plotting to topple its president, but has not yet asked South Africa to extradite Mark Thatcher.
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Western experts worried about the   security of oil supplies from Africa's Gulf of Guinea have   considered several doomsday scenarios, including suicide   attacks by determined Islamist militants on offshore oil   platforms.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Christophe Gnonrou Sibi, 28, drives a cab and lives in a shantytown on the edge of this muggy West African city, Ivory Coast's commercial capital.
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LAUDIUM, South Africa  - The sleepy South African town of Laudium seems a world away from the forbidding, mountainous frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan believed to be Osama bin Laden's hiding place.
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LISBON, Feb 1  (IPS) - Guinea-Bissau is an ideal African springboard for  Latin American mafias to smuggle large quantities of cocaine into  the wealthy European Union market.
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Kenyaâs countryside seems to be settling into a state of lawlessness that is more reminiscent of the checkpoint culture in Somalia or Darfur, Sudan.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - Equatorial Guinea has  asked South Africa for permission to interview Mark Thatcher,  arrested this week on suspicion of involvement in a coup plot  against the leader of the oil-rich country, officials said  Friday.
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MALABO: Equatorial Guinea has decided to seek the extradition of Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, for trial in an alleged coup plot in the central African nation, a legal official close to the government said yesterday.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - When Ellen Perry began making  her documentary "The Fall of Fujimori," she said, she never  thought her tale of a government wielding sweeping police  powers in the name of democracy would become a story with eerie  parallels to the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
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The government will come under increasing pressure this week to explain what action it took to protect British citizens in the West African state of Equatorial Guinea - after Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, admitted that he knew about the attempted
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&quot;Technically, Mark Thatcher could be extradited to stand trial in Equatorial Guinea. Although there&#39;s no extradition treaty between South Africa and Guinea, both countries are signatories to various conventions