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Equatorial Guinea Sextapes: Baltasar Engonga risks 18 years jail term
Premium Times
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July 3, 2025
Remember Baltasar Ebang Engonga? The Equatorial Guinean who went viral in November after explicit sex videos involving him and multiple women surfaced online has returned to the spotlight, this time over allegations of financial fraud. On 7...
Baltasar Engonga: Ex-Equatorial Guinea Anti-graft Chief With Over 400 Leaked S3xtapes Faces 18-year Jail Term
Naija News
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July 3, 2025
The former Director-General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, is facing a possible 18-year prison sentence as his corruption trial continues before a court in Malabo. Naija News reports that...
Baltasar Engonga: Controversial Equatorial Guinea Gov’t ex-official with over 400 sextapes faces 18 years in jail
TV47
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July 3, 2025
Baltasar Engonga, a controversial former government official in Equatorial Guinea, is facing a potential 18-year prison sentence following his appearance in a Malabo court on Monday, June 30, for a corruption trial. The 54-year-old economist by...
Former Equatorial Guinea anti-corruption chief faces 18-year jail term amid embezzlement trial, sextape scandal
Prompt News Online
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July 3, 2025
Baltasar Engonga, the former Director General of Equatorial Guinea’s National Financial Investigation Agency, is facing an 18-year prison sentence following his appearance in a Malabo court over serious corruption allegations. Engonga has been in...
Baltasar Egonga: Controversial Equatorial Guinea govt official sentenced to 18 years in prison for embezzlement
The Standard
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Baltasar Egonga Ebang [Courtesy] Baltasar Engonga Ebang, the former Director General of Equatorial Guinea’s National Agency for Financial Investigation, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for embezzling over Sh 230 million (1 billion CFA...
Catholic Church’s Role in Education, Healthcare Discussed at Pope Leo XIV’s Audience with Equatorial Guinean President
ACI Africa
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July 2, 2025
Vatican, 02 July, 2025 / 4:46 pm (ACI Africa). The Catholic Church’s role in promoting formal education and healthcare in Equatorial Guinea was one of the topics discussed during the June 28 meeting between Pope Leo XIV and the President of the...
Gabon offers free tourist e-Visa for international visitors between July and September 2025
Nairametrics
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July 3, 2025
The government of Gabon has announced the introduction of a free electronic tourist visa (e-Visa) for international travellers visiting the country between July 1 and September 30, 2025. The announcement was made during a press conference in...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa...
Modern Ghana
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A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world's people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected
The Conversation
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July 2, 2025
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
Renewed interest: Minister says deadline for deepwater bidround extended to Sept 17
Loop News
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July 2, 2025
Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Dr Roodal Moonilal has confirmed that the deadline for the ministry’s deepwater bid round, launched in January of this year, has been extended from July 2 (today) to September 17. Moonilal made the...
WAFCON: The Making Of Africa’s Biggest Women’s Football Tournament
Prompt News Online
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July 2, 2025
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau Before 1990, not much was known or heard about women’s football at the continental level as only a few countries in Africa actually had organised women’s football structure, a situation which may have...
Baltasar Ebang Engonga sentenced to 18 years in prison
Zambian Observer
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July 3, 2025
Baltasar Ebang Engonga, the former Director-General of Equatorial Guinea’s National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF), has been sentenced to 18 years in prison following a high-profile corruption trial. The verdict, delivered on June 30, 2025,...
Ex-Equitorial Guinea anti- corruption chief with 800 s3x tapes faces 18-year jail term
Nigerian Eye
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July 3, 2025
The embattled former Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, is set to face 18 years imprisonment after he appeared in the Malabo court for his corruption trial. Engonga had been...
The global fallout of Trump’s travel bans
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 3, 2025
President Donald Trump’s sweeping orders banning citizens of 12 countries, international students, and his threats to ban Nigeria and 35 other countries from travelling to the United States—whether anchored under the guise of national security,...
Ex-E'Guinea anti-corruption chief with over 400 sextapes faces 18-year jail term
Punch
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July 3, 2025
The embattled former Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, is set to face 18 years imprisonment after he appeared in the Malabo court for his corruption trial. Engonga had been...
Harambee Stars coach McCarthy unveils CHAN squad
NTV Kenya
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Harambee Stars coach Benny McCarthy has announced a 30-man provisional squad that will compete in the delayed 2024 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN). The biennial competition reserved for players competing in their domestic leagues will be...
What is BRICS and why does it matter?
Deutsche Welle
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July 3, 2025
Leaders of the world's fast-growing BRICS economies gather in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, promising to strengthen trade and technology exchange within the bloc in the shadow of US President Donald Trump's tariff threat. Brazilian President Luiz...
Four Top Banks to Lead Cameroon's 200 Bln FCFA T-Bond Deal With Afreximbank
Business in Cameroon
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July 1, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian subsidiaries of Societe Generale, Attijariwafa Bank (SCB Cameroun), and Ecobank, along with local bank Afriland First Bank, will lead a 200 billion CFA franc deal on the Bank of Central African States...
Pope Leo XIV receives the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Vatican News
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June 28, 2025
Pope Leo XIV receives the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Mr. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, in the Vatican on Saturday, who subsequently met with the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations,...