Equatorial Guinea denies sending Russia troops to fight in Ukraine

Jeune Afrique /Africa in Summary, April 21, 2025. Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, denied on Saturday April 19 information indicating that Equatoguinean youth were being sent to the front in Ukraine with the Russian army. “I want to deny information about the sending of Equatoguinean troops to Russia [...] The entry Equatorial Guinea. They deny having sent Equatoguinean youth to the front in Ukraine was first pub…

Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, Vice-President of Equatorial Guinea, denied on Saturday 19 April information that young Equatorial Guineans would be sent to Ukraine alongside the Russian army.

Equatorial Guinea denies sending Russia troops to fight in Ukraine

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) April 19, 2025 Equatorial Guinea's vice president on Saturday denied the central African country was sending troops to fight alongside Russian soldiers in Ukraine, contrary to an AFP report published earlier this week. Taking aim at an article in Le Monde, credited to the French newspaper with AFP, Teodoro Nguema Obiang likewise denied the small Spanish-speaking nation on the Atlantic coast had hired Russi