Dictator styles himself as ‘God’

EQUATORIAL Guinea has a long history of attempted coups against its leader, a dictator who recently styled himself “God” and is alleged to eat his opponents’ testicles.

The tiny west African state, consisting of a few islands and a patch of mainland between Gabon and Cameroon, recently discovered vast oil reserves.

In an armed coup in 1979, the current President Teodoro Obiang Nguema M’basogo seized power from his bloodthirsty uncle, Francisco Macias Nguema.