Mr Obiang purchased the 12-acre estate for $31m (£19.5m) in 2004, telling Los Angeles estate agent Neal Baddin that he would be paying with cash.

Swiss authorities raised $27 million for charity with the September 28 auction of a fleet of super cars seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s dictator Teodoro Obiang.

Teodoro Obiang Mangue, the vice president of Equatorial Guinea and a Michael Jackson superfan, was hit with sanctions by the U.K.

First, that politician was lucky enough to be Teodoro Nguema Obiang, heir apparent to the autocratic dictator of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny country in West Africa which since discovering huge oil ...

Equatorial Guinea, Africa's only Spanish-speaking country, goes to the polls Sunday with 80-year-old President Teodoro Obiang Nguema running for a sixth term. Obiang came to power in a 1979 ...

The world's longest-serving president is seeking re-election to continue his 43-year rule in Equatorial Guinea. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 80, has presided over a regime marked by ...

Mr. Obiang seized power in a coup in 1979. He won elections in 1996, 2002 and 2009 with at least 95 percent of the vote, and Mr. Davis said he had advised Mr. Obiang that his huge margins of ...