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World's longest-serving president seeks yet another term in Equatorial Guinea

Campaign billboards for Equatorial Guinea President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, in Malabo on 17 November 2022. © AFP - SAMUEL OBIANG

Equatorial Guineans go to the polls on Sunday as President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the world’s longest-serving president, looks for another mandate in a country considered one of the most repressive in the world.

Obiang, 80, has been at the helm at the oil-rich state for the past 43 years, after taking power from his uncle in a coup d’état in 1979.

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