Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is who has been President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979 since he ousted his uncle, Francisco Macías Nguema, in an August 1979 military coup to emerge as president. He is the longest serving leader in Africa and the entire world.

He achieved the rank of lieutenant after his uncle, Francisco Macías Nguema, was elected the country's first president. He quickly rose through the ranks and held key positions under his uncle's rule.

After overthrowing his uncle in a bloody coup in 1979, he eventually sentenced him to death by firing squad.

In July 2003, state-operated radio declared Obiang "the country's god" with "all power over men and things." It added that the president was "in permanent contact with the Almighty" and "can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to hell." He personally made similar comments in 1993. Macías had also proclaimed himself a god.

Obiang has encouraged his cult of personality by ensuring that public speeches end in well-wishing for himself rather than for the republic. Many important buildings have a presidential lodge, many towns and cities have streets commemorating Obiang's coup against Macías, and many people wear clothes with his face printed on them.

Like his predecessor and other African dictators such as Idi Amin and Mobutu Sese Seko, Obiang has assigned to himself several creative titles. Among them are "gentleman of the great island of Bioko, Annobón and Río Muni." He also refers to himself as El Jefe (the boss).

In 2008, American journalist Peter Maass identified Obiang as Africa's worst dictator, worse than Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Since the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011, Obiang has become the world's third longest-ruling non-royal head of state.

Abuses under Obiang have included "unlawful killings by security forces; government-sanctioned kidnappings; systematic torture of prisoners and detainees by security forces; life-threatening conditions in prisons and detention facilities; impunity; arbitrary arrest, detention, and incommunicado detention."

Obiang has not been spared accusation of cannibalism by his rival:

One rival, Severo Moto, recalled how Obiang had 'just devoured a political commissioner...I say devoured because this commissioner was buried without the testicles and the brain.'

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Obiang son, Teodorin Obiang who is currently the Vice President.
'[He] wants me to go back to Guinea ... [so he can] eat my testicles.'

Forbes magazine has said that Obiang, with a net worth of US$600 million, is one of the world's wealthiest heads of state. In 2003, he took over the state treasury of the oil rich Equatorial Guinea in order to prevent civil servants from being tempted to engage in corrupt practices, he then went further to deposit more than half a billion dollars into accounts controlled by himself and his family at Riggs Bank in Washington, D.C.

President Obiang's son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue who is currently the Vice Presindent has come under heavy criticism by the French government for his jet set lifestyle and wanton acquisition of property.

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hmmm

I taught he's dead already....

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