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Obiang appoints new officials to Equatorial Guinea’s economic council

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Obiang appoints new officials to Equatorial Guinea’s economic council

Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has appointed new members and officials to the National Council for Economic and Social Development. Decree 127/2026 notably names advisers, a secretary-general and several technical officials, reports Realequatorialguinea.

Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has appointed new members, advisers and technical officials to the National Council for Economic and Social Development (CNDES), according to Presidential Decree 127/2026. The appointments notably include Anacleto Nsue Meñan Abegue and Paulino Bololo Ekobo as members, and Andrés Ovono Asumu and Mariola Bindang Obiang as advisers.

The decree also appoints Ismael Mercader Oke Nve as secretary-general. Among the technical officials, José Ramsés Esono Ndong Obono will oversee international relations, while Santiago Obiang Miko Nchama will monitor the 2035–2063 development agendas and Genoveva Mikue Micha Mayé the social policies.

Other appointments concern budgetary and financial monitoring, legal services, the environment and the industrial technical commission. These changes are part of a reorganisation of the CNDES’s leadership and technical functions.

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