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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS | JUNE 15, 2017 |
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| For the past two decades, Equatorial Guinea has been one of Africa’s largest oil producers and on paper, it is a middle-income economy.
Yet instead of spending the country’s oil riches on improving life for ordinary Equatorial Guineans, the government has squandered its enormous wealth on questionable infrastructure projects – highways to nowhere, empty 5-star hotels – where corruption is rife.
In a new interview, HRW researcher Sarah Saadoun explains how a combination of gross mismanagement and high-level corruption has left the Equatorial Guinea’s health and education sectors on their knees. |
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