Equatorial Guinea's president Obiang can extend rule to half a century

Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago won another seven-year term, garnering 95% of the vote

Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago secured a landslide win in Nov. 20 elections, extending his 43-year rule of the tiny oil-rich central African nation.
 

Obiang won another seven-year term, garnering 95 per cent of the vote, the country’s vice president and the son of the president, Teodoro Obiang Mangue, said Saturday on Twitter. Voter participation was 98%, according to a statement on the government website. 

The other candidates -- Andres Esono Ondo of the Convergence for Social Democracy party and Buenaventura Monsuy Asumu of the Party of the Social Democratic Coalition Party -- got 2.3 per cent and