President Teodoro Obiang nguema mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea

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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, June 20 (UPI) -- British mercenary Simon Mann, who took part in a failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, finished his testimony and cross-examination, officials say.

spending millions of rands during a lavish holiday in Cape Town.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is usually referred to as President Obiang.

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since 1979 when he seized power in a coup from an even more bloodthirsty dictator.

Although multiparty elections were instituted in 1993, fraud and intimidation remain the instruments by which Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo remains in power.

His Excellency Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was born in Akoakam-Esangui, in the Mongomo district in northeast Equatorial Guinea on June 5, 1942, as the third child in a family of ten brothers.

President Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO has ruled the country for over two decades since seizing power from his uncle, then President Francisco MACIAS, in a 1979 coup.