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Zimbabwe: Equatorial Guinea and Oil

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 @ 12:31 UTC

by Chippla Vandu

Countries:: Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe
Topics:: none

Yebo Gogo talks about the closer ties between the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, and his Equatorial Guinean counterpart, Teodoro Obaing, and asks if it is all about oil.

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