200 troops of Russian Soldiers deployed to Equatorial Guinea
Russia has sent up to 200 troops of Russian soldiers to Equatorial Guinea in the
past and recent weeks so as to protect the presidency of Equatorial Guinea.
Moscow is also using this opportunity to increase their impact in west Africa not with standing
the recent defeat in Mali.
Sources said the Russians are preparing and training a group of an elite guard in the two
cities of the oil exporting country with an average estimate of 1.7 million people.
US energy firms has also invested billions of dollars in the first decade of the century
before winding down.
The movement of the 200 troops is part of a an effort and pattern of reducing the Western
influence and increasing the Russian intervention influence in the central and west Africa,
where Moscow has sent numerous numbers of troops in their thousands, to help them fight insurgency
and to protect Military regimes.
In Equatorial Guinea the 82 years old president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo who has ruled the
country from 1979 after taking over the country through a coup, is grooming his favorite son to
take over from him. and Russian security is ready to ward of any threat towards the ruling dynasty.
In September when president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo visited Moscow, he thanked the Russian president
Vladimir Putin for sending “instructors” to strengthen Equatorial Guinea’s defense, state news agency reported.
In an interview with three Diplomatic sources, one from civil society, one from opposition and other two close
to the government in the old Spanish colony.
The sources, one who did not want to be named or identified, has confirmed the presence of Russian troops in Equatorial Guinea.
Three of them asserted that the estimated number of 100 to 200 Russians had arrived in the past two months.
Two of the sources also said that the military personnel may include troops from Russia’s ally Belarus,