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Personnel: Approx. 100 tot.

Note: Craft are based at Malabo on the island of Bioko and at Bata on the mainland at Río Muni.

PATROL BOATS [PB]

¨ 1 68-foot U.S.-built (nonoperational)
Bldr: Lantana Boatyard, Lantana, Fla.

037 Isla de Bioko
Laid down 3-87, L 3-88, In serv. 5-88

D: 33 tons (fl) S: 24 kts (28 trials) Dim: 20.73 × 5.50 × 1.50

A: 1 12.7-mm M2 mg; 2 single 7.62-mm mg

Electronics: Radar: 1 Furuno 3600 nav.

M: 2 G.M. Detroit Diesel 8V92 TI diesels; 2 props; 1,170 bhp

Range: 800/15 Crew: 2 officers, 10 enlisted

Remarks: Aluminum construction; delivered unpainted. Paid for by U.S. Grant-Aid program. A planned, larger ship from the same builder was not funded.

Lantana Boatyard, 1988

¨ 1 ex-Nigerian P/20 class (nonoperational)
Bldr: Van Mill Marine Service, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, the Netherlands (In serv. 17-1-86)

Riowele (ex-P 220)

D: 45 tons (fl) S: 32.5 kts Dim: 20.26 (18.00 wl) × 5.30 × 1.75

A: 1 20-mm 90-cal. Rheinmetall AA; 2 single 7.62-mm mg

Electronics: Radar: 1 Decca . . . nav.

M: 2 MTU 6V331 TC82 diesels; 2 props; 2,250 bhp

Range: 950/25; 1,200/11 Crew: 2 officers, 10 enlisted

Remarks: Transferred as a gift from Nigeria 27-6-86. GRP construction.

Cameroonians flee Equatorial Guinea police crackdown
Fri 7 Dec 2007, 15:33 GMT

By Tansa Musa

YAOUNDE, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Two thousand Cameroonians took refuge at their diplomatic missions in Equatorial Guinea on Friday after security forces hunting for bank robbers raided some of their homes, a senior Cameroonian official said.

On Wednesday, heavily armed gunmen stormed two banks simultaneously in Equatorial Guinea's second city Bata, grabbing bags of cash and shooting passers-by before making off in speedboats into the Atlantic Ocean towards Cameroonian waters.

"Following the robberies, the authorities in Equatorial Guinea, as is always the case, pointed an accusing finger at all foreigners in the country, with Cameroonians seemingly being the prime target," the official at Cameroon's Foreign Ministry said.

"Their homes were raided, property ransacked and looted," he said, asking not to be named.

Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony of barely half a million people, has been ruled since 1979 by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who seized power in a coup.

Human rights groups say abuses are rife and the country has a long history of targeting foreigners during moments of crisis.

Cameroonian government officials held crisis meetings throughout Friday to decide whether to organise an evacuation of the 1,800 Cameroonian nationals, who include 37 children and 10 pregnant women, sheltering at the consulate in Bata.

Another 300 Cameroonians had fled to their embassy in the capital Malabo while about 100 others suspected of involvement in the bank raids had been detained, the official said.

FOREIGNERS TARGETED

Split between lush volcanic islands and a mountainous jungle mainland, Equatorial Guinea was an obscure backwater until large off-shore oil deposits were found in the 1990s, boosting its economy and drawing in migrant labourers.

Foreigners -- including Western oil workers who live in gated compounds -- have been the target of the security forces' wrath in the past.

Ghana ordered the evacuation of its nationals in 2004 when dozens of them were locked up, hundreds took refuge in the Ghanaian consulate, and hundreds more went into hiding after the authorities blamed foreigners for a thwarted coup plot.

Cameroon recalled its ambassador a few days later, complaining its citizens had also been unfairly treated, as boatloads of bedraggled Cameroonians landed back home.

Equatorial Guinea's government said Wednesday's bandits, armed with automatic weapons, arrived by boat disguised as fishermen, exchanged fire with the security forces and were pursued until they crossed into Cameroonian waters.

The style of the attack was reminiscent of those carried out by militants in nearby Nigeria's oil-rich Delta, who use boats to attack offshore oil platforms.

Nigerian Delta militant group MEND, which has been accused by rival militant leaders of gun-running and plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, said on Friday it had nothing to do with the bank attacks. (Additional reporting by Estelle Shirbon in Abuja; Writing by Nick Tattersall, editing by Mary Gabriel)

...Africa has found a new development partner in China, which imports 32 per cent of its oil from Africa. China’s oil related investments in recent years in Africa have amounted to at least US$16 billion (euro10.8 billion), according to EU data. Oil producers Angola, Nigeria, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo absorb over 60 per cent of China’s direct African investments.

The EU is concerned that the search by China and other rising powers for oil and other resources across Africa comes with no demands for democracy and human rights. Africans, though, say the Chinese come willing to negotiate as equals.

Africa has learned fast to trade “more effectively (with China and other new powers), to rely more on the private sector, and to avoid the very serious collapses in economic growth that characterised the 1970s, 1980s and even the early 1990s,” according to John Page, the World Bank’s chief economist for Africa.

“What Africans want is a good deal for the goods they offer. And right now the Chinese are offering the best deal. The aid and grants that the West offers are always tied to programs that the West wants.”

Bata, 08-12-2007: CIDGE.- El Presidente de la Republica Jefe de Estado, Su excelencia OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO, ha remodelado a varios miembros del Ejercito del Ejercito según se detalla a continuación los siguientes decretos:


1. Decreto num. 78/2007, de fecha 7 de diciembre, por el que se dispone el cese de Don Bienvenido ESONO ENGONGA en el cargo de Director General Adjunto de Gabinete Militar de la Presidencia de la Republica.

Por conveniencia de mejor servicio, y en uso de las facultades que me confiere el articulo 39, inciso g) de la Ley Fundamental del Estado, Vengo en disponer el cese de Don Bienvenido ESONO ENGONGA en el cargo de Director General Adjunto de Gabinete Militar de la Presidencia de la Republica.

Asi lo dispongo por el presente Decreto dado en Bata, a siete dias del mes de diciembre del año dos mil siete.

POR UNA GUINEA MEJOR OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO
PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA


2. Decreto num. 79/2007, de fecha 7 de diciembre, por el que se dispone el cese de Don Vicente MBA ASUMU en el cargo de Director General Adjunto de la Seguridad Nacional.

Por conveniencia de mejor servicio, y en uso de las facultades que me confiere el articulo 39, inciso g) de la Ley Fundamental del Estado, Vengo en disponer el cese de Don Vicente MBA ASUMU en el cargo de Director General Adjunto de la Seguridad Nacional.

Asi lo dispongo por el presente Decreto dado en Bata, a siete dias del mes de diciembre del año dos mil siete.

POR UNA GUINEA MEJOR OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO
PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA


3. Decreto num. 80/2007, de fecha 7 de diciembre, por el que se nombra a Don Valeriano OVONO NFA, Director General Adjunto de Gabinete Militar de la Presidencia de la Republica.

En atención a las circunstancias que concurren en Don Valeriano OVONO NFA, y en uso de las facultades que me confiere el articulo 39, inciso g) de la Ley Fundamental del Estado, Vengo en nombrarle DIRECTOR GENERAL ADJUNTO de Gabinete Militar de la Presidencia de la Republica.

Asi lo dispongo por el presente Decreto dado en Bata, a siete dias del mes de diciembre del año dos mil siete.

POR UNA GUINEA MEJOR OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO
PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA


4. Decreto num. 81/2007, de fecha 7 de diciembre, por el que se nombra a Don Bienvenido ESONO ENGONGA, Director General Adjunto de la Seguridad Nacional.

En atención a las circunstancias que concurren en Don Bienvenido ESONO ENGONGA y en uso de las facultades que me confiere el articulo 39, inciso g) de la Ley Fundamental del Estado, Vengo en nombrarle DIRECTOR GENERAL ADJUNTO de la Seguridad Nacional.

Asi lo dispongo por el presente Decreto dado en Bata, a siete dias del mes de diciembre del año dos mil siete.

POR UNA GUINEA MEJOR OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO
PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA


5. Decreto num. 82/2007, de fecha 7 de diciembre, por el que se nombra a Don Vicente EYA OLOMO, Segundo Jefe de Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas armadas en la Region Insular.

En atención a las circunstancias que concurren en Don Vicente EYA OLOMO y en uso de las facultades que me confiere el articulo 39, inciso g) de la Ley Fundamental del Estado, Vengo en nombrarle Segundo Jefe de Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas armadas en la Region Insular.

Asi lo dispongo por el presente Decreto dado en Bata, a siete dias del mes de diciembre del año dos mil siete.

POR UNA GUINEA MEJOR OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO
PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA


6. Decreto num. 83/2007, de fecha 7 de diciembre, por el que se nombra a Don DEOGRACIAS NGUEMA NVE, Segundo Jefe de Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas armadas en la Region Continental.

En atención a las circunstancias que concurren en Don DEOGRACIAS NGUEMA NVE y en uso de las facultades que me confiere el articulo 39, inciso g) de la Ley Fundamental del Estado, Vengo en nombrarle Segundo Jefe de Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas armadas en la Region Continental.

Asi lo dispongo por el presente Decreto dado en Bata, a siete dias del mes de diciembre del año dos mil siete.

POR UNA GUINEA MEJOR OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO
PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA