Africanian News: Equatorial Guinea is our Quick Scan Sunday

Good day! This is Equatorial Guinea´s week in 10 Headlines

Africanian News: Equatorial Guinea is our Quick Scan Sunday

1. Equatorial Guinea celebrates in Ekuku, the XLI Anniversary of the Freedom Coup in
the shadow of COVID-19

This year 2020, the ceremony of the glorious day 3 of August, was presided over by
the Vice President of the Republic, Responsible for the Government Portfolios of
Defense and Security, Teodoro Nguema OBIANG MANGUE on behalf of the Head of
State, Obiang NGUEMA MBASOGO.

2. COVID-19: Equatorial Guinea begins the second phase of deconfinement

CONSIDERING, that the COVID-19 Pandemic surveillance and Response Technical
Committee has been closely monitoring the daily evolution of the COVID 19 pandemic
in the country and through the routine information that the data center has been
issuing daily since the start of the pandemic. In this regard, the Committee welcomes
the favorable developments in the positivity rate, in which a decrease is seen in
comparing accumulated positivity with daily positivity based on new cases.

3. President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and BEAC governor talk about Covid-19 crisis

During the meeting held in the Ambassadors’ Room of the People’s Palace, in the
presence of the Minister of Finance, Economy and Planning, Cesar Augusto Mba
Abogo, Abbas Mahamat, he also made known to the President Obiang Nguema
Mbasogo, the measures taken by the Bank of Central African States to stabilize the
Cefa franc.

4. Equatorial Guinea and China walk hand in hand in the fight against Covid-19

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, China and Equatorial Guinea have
re-strengthened their relations with a common goal, eradicating the virus through a
joint strategy based on mutual updating on the situation of COVID-19 in their
respective countries; hence the need for redoubled efforts and extreme vigilance to
overcome that common enemy.

5. Fernando Martínez Abolafio died, promoter of the firm Martinez Hermanos

He was one of the key figures of the economy of Equatorial Guinea and promoter of
the firm Martínez Hermanos. He belonged to the third generation of the Martínez
Hermanos group.

6. The Government assesses the situation of Equatorial Guinean students abroad under
COVID-19

After requesting from the different diplomatic representations the needs observed
during the COVID period in the collective of students abroad, a list was given to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

7. The National Statistical Council-CNE holds its first annual meeting

This meeting was chaired by the President of the Council, Cesar Augusto Mba Abogo
and the Ministers of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Transport, Posts and
Telecommunications, Fisheries and Water Resources, Social Affairs and Gender
Equality, Labour, Employment and Social Security Promotion, and Health and Social
Welfare, among others.

8. Oscar A. NCHASO BEKARI is our Man In Tech this week — AfriLabs

He is the Founder and Managing Director at Dreams Hub, also a Business Consultant
and motivational speaker who invites his audience through his incursions to think or
reflect on topics as current and necessary as uncertainty management, assertiveness
for decision making, results management, vision strategic, active listening of the
environment and attitudes to achieve success

9. The ministry of health has created an institutional website.

The main objective of Equatorial Guinean health is to provide with transparency the
data, not only of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, but also of all the health
services found therein, global visibility and bring health information closer to any
institution or person regardless of where they reside, according to sources of the
institution.

10. Civil Aviation opens doors to 15 (Fifteen) Equatoguineans aircrafts maintenance
specialists

Following their return to the country last Saturday, July 01 from Greece, the group of
the 15 Aircraft Maintenance Engineers was received on Wednesday by the Minister of
Civil Aviation, Leandro Miko Angue, on the occasion of receiving their licenses
obtained during the two years of training they have received in Athens, in the
company AEGEN.