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1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état: Government of Equatorial Guinea: Supreme Military Council: Defeat. Coup attempt successful; Francisco Macías Nguema is imprisoned and executed on September 29, 1979; 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt: Equatorial Guinea: Private mercenaries Victory. Coup plot fails; Coup plotters arrested in ...
Wars involving Spanish Guinea or modern Equatorial Guinea (1968-). Subcategories. ... Spanish Civil War (14 C, 58 P) Pages in category "Wars involving Equatorial Guinea"
The 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état happened on August 3, 1979, when President Francisco Macías Nguema's nephew, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, overthrew him in a bloody coup. Fighting between loyalists and rebels continued until Macías Nguema was captured fleeing for Cameroon on August 18.
Signing of the independence of Equatorial Guinea by the then Spanish minister Manuel Fraga together with the new Equatorial Guinean president Macías Nguema on October 12, 1968. In March 1968, under pressure from Equatoguinean nationalists and the United Nations , Spain announced that it would grant independence to Equatorial Guinea.
William Allen Vivour (fl. 1830-1890) was the single most successful 19th-century planter in Africa [1] [2] [3] due to his substantial and flourishing cocoa plantation in Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea). [1]
Equatorial Guinea, [a] officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, [b] is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. It has an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location near both the Equator and in the African region of Guinea.
The Aro Confederacy kingdom was founded after the beginning of the Aro-Ibibio Wars. Their influence and presence was all over Eastern Nigeria, lower Middle Belt, and parts of present-day Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea during the 18th and 19th centuries.
This is a list of conflicts in Africa arranged by country, both on the continent and associated islands, including wars between African nations, civil wars, and wars involving non-African nations that took place within Africa. It encompasses pre-colonial wars, colonial wars, wars of independence, secessionist and separatist conflicts, major ...