{"id":5624,"date":"2023-02-18T03:35:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2023-02-18T03:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:35:36","slug":"equatorial-guinea-vice-presidents-superyacht-and-homes-seized-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2023\/02\/18\/equatorial-guinea-vice-presidents-superyacht-and-homes-seized-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Equatorial Guinea vice-president’s superyacht and homes seized in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Article:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-64627695<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary: <\/strong>The son of longtime leader and dictator of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang has had 2 of his luxurious cars and a mansion seized from him and auctioned off in South Africa to Daniel Janse, a businessman who had failed to close a deal with the vice president during a trip to Equatorial Guinea. Janse sued after being held in the country for over 500 days where he was allegedly tortured and won a 2.2m dollar settlement in South Africa. The son is also the vice president of Equatorial Guinea and is the likely successor of Obiang, which his family has held power for over 40 years and rule their country as a personal fiefdom by withholding the country’s oil profit for themselves.

Analysis:<\/strong> South Africa is just one of many countries to take action against the son of Obiang, as other countries such as Switzerland and France have also seized his cars, however, this is clearly irrelevant and doesn’t matter to the family, as he has continued this behavior after continuously being warned about the civil rights violations in his country and his behavior abroad. I believe the Obiang family will continue to rule Equatorial Guinea with an iron fist and continue to abuse their share of the state’s oil profit until a Western-backed coup takes place or the people were able to rise up. Unfortunately, either scenario is unlikely for the foreseeable future, as the family is so rich it can easily pay off its military and other officials to keep themselves in power. Although, it has become clear the son is less experienced and more controversial with regional and global leaders, which will potentially make a future without its current president more unpredictable and potentially unstable. Overall, Western countries can confiscate as much as they’d like from the Obiang family, it hasn’t and will likely continue to not deter their human rights violations.

Connection to Class: <\/strong>The situation in Equatorial Guinea is a consequence of the botched decolonization effort by Spain during the post-World War 2 phase (phase 2) of the world. The Spanish Civil War and Decolonization Movement forced geopolitical restructuring in Africa and for Spain to cede their colonies to independence groups, however, Equatorial Guinea was not drawn to be a state, but a mere trading port for Spain. This led to ethnic tensions between those who lived on the mainland and Malibu (the country’s capital on a small island), which ultimately culminated in multiple dictatorships and ethnic cleansings that put the Obiang family in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-64627695 Summary: The son of longtime leader and dictator of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang has had 2 of his luxurious cars and a mansion seized from him and auctioned off in South Africa to Daniel Janse, a businessman who had failed to close a deal with the vice president during a trip to Equatorial Guinea. Janse sued after being… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5625,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}