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Nicholas Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a former staff reporter for Reuters-London, a regular contributor on oil in Africa’s Guinea Gulf to the Financial Times, and profiled President Obiango for BBC News in 2004. He is the Africa fellow at the UK-based think-tank Chatham House, and his book Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2007.

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What Caring Neighbors Do

As President Obiang Nguema’s limousine approached the Congresses Palace in Bata, soldiers brandished whippy sticks to part the worthies in green caps and white party T-shirts. For months, officials had been organizing this, ordering tiepins and lea [...]