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What the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal could in fact be the latest episode in the real-life drama over who will become Equatorial Guinea’s next president. Over the past fortnight ...

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Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a high-ranking official in Equatorial Guinea and relative of the president, has been dismissed after explicit videos of him with multiple women surfaced online. The videos ...

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Who is at the center of the scandal? Baltasar Ebang Engonga, known locally as “Bello” for his good looks, is the official at the heart of the controversy. A nephew of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema ...