Equatorial Guinea gets new PM
2006-08-15 08:27
Malabo - President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea on Monday named Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea as the country's new prime minister and asked him to form a government, said reports.
Mangue Obama Nfubea's predecessor Miguel Abia Biteo Borico and the whole government of the west African state, sub-Saharan Africa's third-largest oil producer, had resigned on Thursday.
Mangue Obama Nfubea, 45, was the first member of the country's ethnic Fang to become prime minister since the country's independence in 1968. The Fang made up 80% of its population.
He had held several ministerial posts and was also deputy prime minister in his predecessor's cabinet.
Obiang had sharply criticised Abia Biteo Borico for the past few months, for corruption and incompetence in particular, and a change of government had been widely expected.