President Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi currently on a 5-day state visit to Equatorial Guinea has flown to Mongomo the birth place of his host.
Major Equatorial Guinea media outlets are silent on Ndayishimiye's visit
Mongomo is a town in the province of Wele-Nzas on mainland Equatorial Guinea, on the eastern border, roughly 1 km west of Gabon's Woleu-Ntem Province. This town of 7,000 in the middle of Africa's densest jungle, Mongomo boasts an impressive list of attractions.
Mongomo futuristic town is carved out of Equatorial Guinea's virgin rainforest is a private airport, a football stadium that hosted games for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. This place has a new international-standard golf course named in honor of Teodoro Obiang Nguema the head of state also considered in his country as 'Guarantor of Peace and Propeller of Development.'
Equatorial Guinea is not a signatory to the statutes of the International Criminal Court and this is the reason it hosts the ousted x-Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh.
French publication Jeune Afrique previously reported that Jammeh had requested land to farm in Equatorial Guinea, something he had planned to do in retirement in Gambia, where he owned a large farm in his hometown of Kanilai.
According to Alicante, land has been set aside for him in the Moka Valley, a picturesque tract of mountains and waterfalls which, like Mongomo, is away from Equatorial Guinea's oppressive coastal humidity.
Mongomo has been an attractive destination for Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni. He visited this area in August 2017 accompanied by First Lady Janet Museveni.
In 2016, Museveni had sent in UPDF troops handpicked from different army units â€" Logistics, Special Forces, Intelligence, Medical and Motorised Infantry. This was a covert mission of reinforcing security for that country's president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and officially to strengthen capacity of the Guinean armed forces, according to highly placed military sources.
Equatorial Guinea has a small army of about 1,500 troops. It has 400 policemen, 200 navy service members, and about 120 in the air force.
President Mbasogo assumed power in August 1979 after mounting a coup that toppled his uncle, Francisco Macías Nguema, who was also the country's first president.
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Source : https://taarifa.rw/president-ndayishimiye-flown-to-president-mbasogos-birth-village/
