Full Coverage: Equatorial Guinea

26.08.2004 The Scorpions, an elite police squad, knocked on Sir Mark ThatcherÂ’s door at 7am to arrest him for allegedly backing a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.

06.07.2004 The government of Equatorial Guinea, the rags-to-riches West African petro-state where major U.S. oil companies have invested billions of dollars in recent years, has violently put down the latest coup plot against it, summarily executing at least a dozen alleged rebels and rounding up and torturing relatives and associates of an opposition party accused of sponsoring the coup attempt.

03.03.2004 The United Nations Development Programme and Equatorial Guinea have launched a scheme to train enough teachers so that every child in the African country can finish primary school by 2010.

12.07.2002 The death of an opposition political activist who had been sentenced to over six years in jail for allegedly plotting to overthrow Equatorial Guinea's government has caused an international outcry.

22.04.2002 Last week's meeting of the United nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva ignored severe human rights violations in including Russia, Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea, said a leading international rights watchdog.

22.04.2002 The world's highest human rights body last week chose to ignore severe human rights violations in several countries on its agenda, including Russia, Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea, according to a leading international rights group.

29.03.2002 Several dozen detainees, apparently rounded up in connection with their political activities or family ties, are at risk of dying under torture in Equatorial Guinea, where offshore oil reserves are attracting unprecedented amounts of United States and energy company interest, according to Amnesty International.

28.03.2002 Detainees held incommunicado in Equatorial Guinea for their alleged links with a not yet legalised opposition party are at risk of dying under torture, Amnesty International warned.

26.06.2000 At least five people in Equatorial Guinea have been arrested over the last year for possessing literature considered "dubious" by judicial authorities.

20.03.2000 The health of 50 ailing prisoners from Equatorial Guinea's ethnic Bubi minority is at risk following their transfer from a jail in the country's capital to an unknown destination.

02.11.1999 Short term detention, torture and physical threats are routinely used to intimidate peaceful political opponents of Equatorial Guinea's government, says Amnesty International.

19.02.1999 More than 10 candidates from opposition parties in Equatorial Guinea have been arrested in the run-up to legislative elections scheduled for the beginning of March.