Not quite four decades, more like four days after that Equatorial Guinea-Senegal game, but I know where you're coming from Mustafa.
The report focuses on five countries - Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan and Nauru.
Keshi made big changes after Nigeria failed to qualify for last year's event in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon -- a turbulent period for the national team, which was suspended from international football by President Goodluck Jonathan before world ruling body FIFA threatened to intervene.
Triton's Ceiba-1 well off Equatorial Guinea came in a gusher, flowing more than 12, 000 barrels a day.
Some countries praised for their breakneck economic growth, such as Angola and Equatorial Guinea, are oil-sodden kleptocracies.
The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.
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Equatorial Guinea, an oil-rich former Spanish colony, has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang since he seized power from his uncle in 1979.
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.
Five years ago a venerable American institution, Riggs Bank (where Abe Lincoln once banked), collapsed after a Senate inquiry revealed that Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Obiang Nguema, the long-serving president of Equatorial Guinea, had stashed millions in private accounts, with no proper questions asked.
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Angola is just one of several promising but politically unstable--and often violent--regions like Kazakhstan and Equatorial Guinea.
Resource-rich countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Gabon were singled out as making less progress in combating poverty than other African countries with fewer natural resources.
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The Zebras qualified for Gabon and Equatorial Guinea with two matches to spare - at home to Malawi and away to Togo.
At the first plant profits for both Marathon and Equatorial Guinea are disappointing because of a long-term contract with British Gas that turned out not to be favorable to the producers.
ExxonMobil also inherited an image problem in Equatorial Guinea, where Mobil obtained concessions in the mid-1990s.
SIVs come from a sub-species that lives mainly in Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
Production from the Ceiba field off the coast of Equatorial Guinea is expected to hit 52, 000 barrels a day by year-end.
Of course there are exceptions, such as Botswana and Namibia (both in the African top five as far as governance is concerned), but most resource-rich countries are well down the table: the DRC, Sudan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Congo (Brazzaville), Nigeria and Angola are all ranked between 34th and 46th in the World Bank's regional rankings.
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