Category Archives: Equatorial Guinea

By Thor Halvorssen and Tutu Alicante Francisco Macias Nguema may not be as notorious as Kim Jong-Il or Joseph Stalin, but the people of Equatorial Guinea know him to be just as devastating. The dictator terrorized the country for 11 years, looting and pillaging with wanton bloodlust. Nobody knows the exact body count, but he killed or expelled more than one third of the country’s population. Teodoro Obiang Nguema was Macias’s nephew and trusted henchman, running the regime’s notorious “Black Beach” prison-torture complex and leading the National Guard. Their joint handiwork was such that the country became known as the “Auschwitz of Africa.” Proportionally, the two killed more people than the Nazis did … Continue reading →