![Teodoro Obiang Mangue was handed a three-year suspended sentence and a 30 million euros ($33m) fine at the end of his trial in absentia in France last year [File: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-28T121659Z_1925072599_RC2OTO9RAX8P_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-EQUATORIAL-COURT.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
France’s highest appeal court refuses to overturn Teodoro Obiang Mangue’s 2020 corruption conviction.
Equatorial Guinea
![In its statement, OPEC+ 'highlighted the continuing recovery in the global economy' but also noted 'that COVID-19 cases are rising in a number of countries, despite the ongoing vaccination campaigns, and that the resurgence could hamper the economic and oil-demand recovery' [File: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/371300227.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
World oil consumption will rebound by a vigorous six million barrels a day this year, according to OPEC+ estimates.
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As Equatorial Guinea begins three-day mourning period over disaster, HRW says actual death toll ‘much higher’.
![The explosions damaged almost all homes and buildings in Bata, a city of just over 250,000 people [Jose Luis Abecara Aguesomo/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/h_56750555.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Death toll from explosions at military barracks in Equatorial Guinea rose to 98 on Monday.
Officials say 615 also wounded in explosions that destroyed buildings at military base and countless homes in Bata.
At least 20 killed and 600 wounded in blasts caused by ‘negligence’ in the storing of dynamite at a military base.
![President of Equatorial Guinea and the world's longest-serving ruler Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo will be required to declare his wealth prior to the country receiving more financial support from the IMF [File: Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/da41cf16b44d433db0d27e410ae9d699_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Announcement comes as country struggles to cope with economic shock linked with coronavirus and crude price drop.
![Teodoro Obiang was agriculture and forestry minister before his father promoted him to vice [president [Jerome Delay/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/39f3239a4d0f4ca3a5512415cda1cb61_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Teodorin Obiang, vice president and son of Equatorial Guinea’s president, also handed a three-year suspended jail term.
US and French authorities allege Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo squandered the African nation’s oil wealth.
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Luxury cars of Teodorin Obiang, Equatorial Guinea’s vice president, were confiscated as part of money-laundering probe.
![President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, delivers a speech attended by his Argentinian counterpart, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, in the White Hall of Casa Rosada (Government Palace) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 13 2008 [EPA/CEZARO DE LUCA]](/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/20101021164520621633_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
As of today, the world’s longest serving president is Teodoro Obiang.
![Mbasogo has been in power in Equatorial Guinea since 1979 [David Mercado/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/bdde94a187c54190812ed840ee55e800_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
African nation says mercenaries from neighbouring states tried to overthrow President Teodoro Mbasogo last month.
Teodorin Obiang, vice president of Equatorial Guinea, has been found guilty of embezzling money to buy property and luxury cars.
The son of Equatorial Guinea’s president is on trial in France for misusing state funds.