Equatorial Guinea’s entire Cabinet resigned after the government achieved only 10% of its targets, the vice president said. The ruling PDGE blamed poor performance including corruption, delays in development projects, and a failure to diversify the economy, wi
In Equatorial Guinea, the political clock moved fast—so fast that the question people will ask now is simple: what was the point of setting targets at all?
On Tuesday. Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said the entire Cabinet had resigned after failing to achieve the vast majority of the government’s goals. The vice president said Prime Minister Manuel Osa Nsue Nsuga had submitted the Cabinet’s resignation after falling far short of government targets.
Obiang said the government had achieved only 10% of its targets, without saying how those targets were measured. In a statement posted on X, he said: “The degree of execution achieved is clearly insufficient in relation to the expectations and commitments undertaken.”
The ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, or PDGE, said President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was dissatisfied with the government’s performance. The party pointed to corruption, delays in development projects, and a failure to diversify the economy.
A new government was expected to be appointed in the coming days.
Political analysts will be watching for personnel changes, but the overall power structure is unlikely to shift. President Obiang has dominated the political system since 1979, making him Africa’s longest-serving president, and he appoints the government.
The announcement of a Cabinet resignation lands in a broader environment where dissent is rare. Equatorial Guinea has virtually no critical voices, and authorities have been accused by rights groups and the U.S. State Department of detaining, torturing and even killing people who speak out.
The country is also among ten African nations to have signed widely criticized deals with the Trump administration to take third-country deportees.
With the Cabinet gone and a replacement expected soon, the immediate impact will be felt inside the government offices. The bigger question. though. is whether the same system that sets the targets—and controls the appointment of those responsible for meeting them—will allow those goals to change in real terms.
Equatorial Guinea Cabinet resignation Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue Manuel Osa Nsue Nsuga PDGE government targets corruption development projects economy diversification
10%?? That’s wild, like why even set targets if they weren’t gonna do anything.
So the cabinet resigned because they hit 10% of goals, but nobody says how the targets were measured lol. Sounds like the whole thing is just PR. Also corruption always showing up in these stories.
“Cabinet resigned” makes it sound like they got mad at the numbers, but really it’s probably just the president juggling power again. I read somewhere he’s been running stuff since like forever, so the targets probably changed depending on who’s in trouble.
It’s kinda funny because they blamed corruption and delays, but the delays are probably on purpose so contracts can get rerouted. And if dissent is rare there, how are they even gonna explain anything. I also saw “deportees” mentioned—makes me wonder if that’s part of why the government is scrambling or whatever.