They are thought to have once ranged across equatorial Africa.
The following October, the government of Chad, the former French colony in equatorial Africa, announced that it would amend a law controlling the spending of revenue from an oil pipeline that the bank had helped finance.
The further you go from the equator, the slower kids are to toilet train, and that helps us make sense of what happens in equatorial Africa because the further you go from the equator, the colder it is and the more clothes kids have to wear.
And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.
Hope comes from Equatorial Guinea in West Africa, Marathon's biggest and most lucrative upstream venture.
The South Africa team had a minor boost with a 4-1 defeat of Equatorial Guinea in the combined 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers over the weekend.
Equatorial Guinea is now one of Africa's largest oil producers.
The government of Equatorial Guinea is meanwhile seeking the extradition from South Africa of Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The editor of news magazine Africa Confidential, Patrick Smith, described the judicial system in Equatorial Guinea as "ad hoc".
Sir Mark has been out of the headlines since his arrest in South Africa in 2004 for his alleged involvement in a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea.
The latest example of this is the Africa Cup of Nations, Africa's continental soccer tournament, which is being held in Equatorial Guinea (population 668, 000 roughly the size of Memphis, Tenn.) and Gabon (1.6 million).
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