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DAKAR (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea President Teodor Obiang Nguema has promoted his farm minister son - wanted in France for alleged money laundering - to vice president in charge of national defense and state security, a government statement said on Tuesday. The promotion was part of a cabinet reshuffle and reform of the constitution which critics of the oil-rich Central African state believe is aimed at ensuring a future handover of power to Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, widely known as...Read Full Story

PARIS (Reuters) - A French prosecutor on Wednesday approved an investigator's request for an international arrest warrant for the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on money laundering charges, a judicial source said. Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, widely known as "Teodorin", is agriculture minister in the small oil-producing central African country. French judges had earlier requested a warrant for him on suspicion he had bought real estate in France with public...Read Full Story

PARIS (Reuters) - A French prosecutor on Wednesday approved an investigator's request for an international arrest warrant for the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on money laundering charges, a judicial source said. Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, agriculture minister in the small oil-rich central African country, is suspected of acquiring real estate in France by fraud. (Reporting By Thierry Leveque; Writing by Alexandria Sage; Editing by Jon Boyle)Read Full Story

JOHANNESBURG – A human rights group is criticizing a weekend referendum in Equatorial Guinea that now will allow the country's strongman leader to seek two more terms.Read Full Story

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea – New York-based Human Rights Watch is calling on the government of Equatorial Guinea to release a member of the country's opposition who was arrested earlier this week.Read Full Story