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Equatorial Guinea

Type: Country

Name: Equatorial Guinea

population: 1,085,278

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 4 Documents

Twitter Inc

Of Twitter, Plagiarism and Online Journalism

In the first, the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, a family-owned paper based outside of Hartford, Conn., has filed suit against the Hartford Courant, accusing the Tribune Co. paper--the biggest in Connecticut--of lifting stories from the Journal Inquirer ... [The American Lawyer - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Plagiarism, Equatorial Guinea, Twitter Inc, Tribune Company

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Facebook Inc

From compassion to action, from action to knowledge

I’ve opened a lot of lectures lately – presentations about our Media Cloud research at Berkman – by complaining about the New York Times’s Africa coverage. I cite the fact that Japan tends to average roughly 8-10 times as many mentions in the paper of ... [...My heart's in Accra - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Equatorial Guinea, Global Witness, Twitter Inc, Nationalism, Facebook Inc

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Corruption Index Today, Election Tomorrow, Aid Revamp the Day After?

Corruption, Foreign Aid, Governance, Afghanistan, Global EconomicsDaniel Kaufmann, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and DevelopmentThe Brookings InstitutionTransparency International (TI), the international anti-corruption NGO, just released its annual Corruption ... [Brookings Institution - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Corruption, Afghanistan, Donor, Elections

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Equatorial Guinea Plateaus

SummaryEquatorial Guinea expects little growth in oil production over the next five years, with output expected to plateau at 250,000-300,000 b/d, Vice Minister for Energy Gabriel Obiang Lima told the CWC conference in London Wednesday... ... [Energy Intelligence Group - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Equatorial Guinea, Lima (Peru), Oil Production

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

London, Nov 17 2009 | Global Witness

Global Witness Confidential U.S. government documents uncovered by campaign group Global Witness and reported on in today's New York Times, strongly suggest that Teodorin Obiang, son of the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, purchased a $33 million ... [BankTrack - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Global Witness, Equatorial Guinea, London, United States

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 Documents

Africa: Opacity Blamed for Bad Oil Deals in Africa

Montreal Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining industries, have blamed opacity in oil and mineral licensing for the bad ... [AllAfrica.com - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Opacity, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Extraction

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 9 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

'Taint of Corruption' -- By: Mark Krikorian

Today's NYT has a story on how the crooked son of Equatorial Guinea's crooked president is able to gain access to his home in Malibu despite the "taint of corruption": Several times a year, Teodoro Nguema Obiang arrives at the doorstep of the United ... [The Corner on National Review Online - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Equatorial Guinea, Mark Krikorian, Corruption, Contamination

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 3 Documents (in Energy)

Equatorial Guinea OKs BG LNG shift

BG Group irked the government earlier this year by selling some LNG shipments to Asia after saying it planned to send most of it to the US.Deputy energy minister Gabriel Obiang Lima told Reuters in March the British company would not get any new gas discovered ... [Upstreamonline.com - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Equatorial Guinea, BG Group plc, Lima (Peru), Liquefied Natural Gas

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents

KEN SILVERSTEIN—More on Equatorial Guinea’s Oil-Sotted Crook

By Ken SilversteinFrom Gawker:A tipster, who works on Rodeo Drive, says Teodoro Nguema Obiang, the Ferrari-driving big spender who plunders Equatorial Guinea’s oil wealth is dating a family member and just dropped $70,000 in one store on clothes for her. ... [Harpers Magazine - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Equatorial Guinea, Ken Silverstein, Criminal, Teodoro Nguema Obiang, Black Beach Prison

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 4 Documents

OHM Secures CSEM Survey in Offshore Equatorial Guinea

OHM has entered into a strategic partnership with the Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting in China (BGP) to provide marine CSEM survey design, acquisition and processing services to BGP. ... [Rigzone - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Equatorial Guinea, Acquisition, China

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents

OHM contracted for offshore Equatorial Guinea survey

November 16,2009 --Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting in China (BGP) has awarded Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping (OHM) a $2.5-million contract for the acquisition of marine CSEM data offshore Equatorial Guinea..... ... [Offshore oil and gas - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Equatorial Guinea, Hydrocarbon, Acquisition

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents

WB grants $40 mln to help Central African countries

Increases the bookmarktwitterfacebookdiggGoogleWindowsliveDeliciousbuzzfriendfeedLinkedindiigoredditstumbleuponThe International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank group, has accorded a five-year loan of 40 million U.S. dollars to Central ... [People's Daily Online - 11/17/2009]

Entities: International Finance Corporation, Republic of the Congo, World Bank Group, Brazzaville

Quotes

Hartley's tweet: "How does the NY Times manage its reporter's conflicts of interest? Not well. Re: Equatorial Guinea, father was judge in controversial case."

Of Twitter, Plagiarism and Online Journalism [The American Lawyer - 4 hours ago]

"How does NY Times manage its reporter's conflicts of interest?" Hartley tweeted indignantly on Tuesday. "Not well. Re: Equatorial Guinea, father was judge in controversial case."

Firm Vice Chairman Uses Twitter to Strike Back at NYT Reporter for Story on Client [Law.com - 19 hours ago]

...Hartley acknowledged that he hadn't verified the connection before tweeting. "Here's one thing about social media. You don't have to always be right" he said

Firm Vice Chairman Uses Twitter to Strike Back at NYT Reporter for Story on Client [Law.com - Newswire - 21 hours ago]

...Wojtaszczyk joins the company as Subsea Services project manager, managing saturation diving and ROV operations. "Andy's operational knowledge and practical experience makes him the perfect fit for managing our subsea services, including saturation diving projects" said President and Chief Executive Officer W A 'Beau Bisso IV...

Wojtaszczyk Joins Bisso Marine as Subsea Ser... [Rigzone - 11/19/2009]

More Content

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Of Twitter, Plagiarism and Online Journalism [The American Lawyer - 4 hours ago]
Lawyer Complains Of New York Times "Confli... [Business Insider - 10 hours ago]
Africa: Opacity Blamed for Bad Oil Deals in Africa [AllAfrica.com - 11 hours ago]
Angola Oil And Gas Report Q3 2009 - New Report ... [OfficialWire - 13 hours ago]
Firm Vice Chairman Uses Twitter to Strike Back... [Law.com - 19 hours ago]
Firm Vice Chairman Uses Twitter to Strike Back ... [Law.com - Newswire - 21 hours ago]
Wojtaszczyk Joins Bisso Marine as Subsea Ser... [Rigzone - 11/19/2009]
Africa: Winners and Losers In Corruption Stakes [AllAfrica.com - 11/19/2009]
Oil Revenue Challenges Ghana [Forbes.com - 11/19/2009]
The Danger For Ghana In Oil [Forbes.com - 11/19/2009]
Corruption Index Today, Election Tomorrow, Aid ... [Brookings Institution - 11/19/2009]
Equatorial Guinea Plateaus [Energy Intelligence Group - 11/19/2009]
London, Nov 17 2009 \| Global Witness [BankTrack - 11/19/2009]
Equatorial Guinea OKs BG LNG shift [Upstreamonline.com - 11/18/2009]
France stirs ill will as officials consort with... [Taipei Times Online - 11/18/2009]
Eq. Guinea says BG free to divert LNG from U.S. [Reuters Africa - 11/18/2009]
UPDATE 1-BG can divert LNG from U.S. in gas glu... [Reuters Africa - 11/18/2009]
Somalia most corrupt government, New Zealand th... [Times Live South Africa - 11/18/2009]
KEN SILVERSTEIN—More on Equatorial Guinea’s Oil... [Harpers Magazine - 11/18/2009]
Eq. Guinea says oil output to stay around 250,0... [Forbes.com - 11/18/2009]
18th November, 2009 Ghana to host international... [Ghana News Agency - 11/18/2009]
18th November, 2009 Energy Minister visits oil ... [Ghana News Agency - 11/18/2009]
Revenue Watch Talks with Journalist Peter Maass... [Revenue Watch Institute - 11/18/2009]
...Acquires Bell Helicopters to fight smuggling [Nigeria Guardian - 11/18/2009]
Dresser-Rand To Supply Equipment For An FPSO Fo... [Energy Business Review - 11/18/2009]
Noble's Aseng Lets Deals [Energy Intelligence Group - 11/18/2009]
'Taint of Corruption' -- By: Mark Krikorian [National Review - 11/17/2009]
Greed is the new green [Times Live South Africa - 11/17/2009]
Allegedly corrupt Guinean gets into U.S. [UPI - 11/17/2009]
Dresser-Rand to supply Aseng field FPSO power g... [Offshore oil and gas - 11/17/2009]

Blogs

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From compassion to action, from action to knowl... [...My heart's in Accra - 11/19/2009] I’ve opened a lot of lectures lately – presentations about our Media Cloud research at Berkman – by complaining about the New York Times’s Africa coverage. I cite ...
Big ambition for Equatorial Guinea [Africa Blog - 11/18/2009] This week has seen a rush of key policymakers and business executives from Africa flocking to London. Apart from Sierra Leone, oil and gas executives have been discussing ...
A stitch in time will save us from full-scale c... [Times LIVE Blogs - Posts - 11/18/2009] IT went by pretty much un-noticed, perhaps because it contained some very uncomfortable truths, but Transparency International’s report on the world’s most corrupt ...
Somalia most corrupt government, New Zealand th... [Times LIVE Blogs - Posts - 11/18/2009] The world’s most corrupt governments, according to monitoring group Transparency International: 1. Somalia 2. Afghanistan 3. Myanmar T4. Sudan T4. Iraq 6. ...
Somalia most corrupt government, New Zealand th... [The Wild Frontier - 11/18/2009] The world’s most corrupt governments, according to monitoring group Transparency International: 1. Somalia 2. Afghanistan 3. Myanmar T4. Sudan T4. Iraq 6. ...

Audio/Video

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Released British mercenary back home [Reuters Video: Top News - 11/04/2009]
Africa Coup-plotter Mann Back in UK [Associated Press - YouTube - 11/04/2009]
Simon Mann gets unexpected pardon [ITN News - YouTube - 11/03/2009]

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