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Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
Total fears for its petroleum products business after Teodorin Obiang greenlights new refinery

A plan to build a new modular refinery, which is due to come into operation in 2022-2023, threatens to put an end to Total's virtual monopoly on Equatorial Guinea's petroleum products business. [...]

Published on 28/10/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
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Equatorial Guinea, France
Paris, Malabo hold secret talks over Paris mansion in wake of VP's ill-gotten gains conviction

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Oranto boss Arthur Eze holds fruitful secret meeting with President Obiang

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