Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

Since 1979, President Obiang has been constrained only by a need to maintain a consensus among his advisers and political supporters, most of whom are drawn from the Nguema family in Mongomo, in the eastern part of Río Muni.

Military appointments are all reviewed by President Teodoro Obiang, and few of the native militiamen come from outside of Obiang's Mongomo-based Esangui clan.

After Macias ' fall in 1979, President Obiang asked for Spanish assistance, and since then, Spain has regained influence in Equatorial Guinea's diplomatic relations.

* June 5 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea and Chairperson of the African Union

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo ( born 5 June 1942 ) is an Equatoguinean politician who has been President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.

US President Barack Obama | Obama and Obiang with their wives in 2009 at a reception in New York

As of June 2007, Bongo, along with President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo, Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and José Eduardo dos Santos from Angola was being investigated by the French magistrates after the complaint made by French NGOs Survie and Sherpa due to claims that he has used millions of pounds of embezzled public funds to acquire lavish properties in France.

Rivas was appointed as Prime Minister by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on February 26, 2001, succeeding Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan.

His government was sworn in on February 27, and President Obiang emphasized on this occasion that it needed to show unity and " cohesion ".

From Mongomo originate the nation's first president Francisco Macías Nguema and of the current President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, hence the name the clan of Mongomo to define those belonging to his ruling clique.

* Led by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, in office since 3 August 1979

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema appointed Cándido Muatetema Rivas to succeed him on February 26.

* Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea

* Teodoro Nguema Obiang, son of the President

It was established by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as the country's sole legal political organization on 11 October 1987.

He is a close ally of the President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

President Obiang directed serious criticism at Abia Biteo Boricó during 2006, and his government resigned on August 10, 2006.

The party's candidate in the December 2002 presidential election was Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé, who withdrew from the election along with other opposition candidates due to alleged fraud and intimidation but remained on the ballot and won 2. 2 % of the vote ; President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea won 97. 1 %.

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo ( 1979 -), a Fang from the same family as Macías, continued the policy of prohibiting separatist movements.

Around the time of the 2005 plea bargain, an advisor to Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that: " We are confident that justice has been done ", and did not indicate that the country would seek Thatcher's extradition.

Mann was extradited ( his word " kidnapped " because of there being no extradition treaty ) from Zimbabwe to Equatorial Guinea on 1 February 2008, having been accused of planning a coup d ' état to overthrow the government by leading a mercenary force into the capital Malabo in an effort to kidnap or kill President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

On 2 November 2009 he was given " a complete pardon on humanitarian grounds " by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was re-elected unopposed on 15 December 2002.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.

It was in the midst of such White House deliberations that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the U. S. Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in the near future.

how little we know of what there is to be known is made humiliatingly clear by Mr. White in `` The Making Of The President 1960 ''.

Throughout `` The Making Of A President '' Mr. White shows wonderfully well how the pressures pile up on candidates, how decisions have constantly to be made, how fatigue and illness and nervous strain wear candidates down, how subordinates play key roles.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

In 1934, he was made a member of the Privy Council and served as a member of the League of Nations ( 1934 – 37 ), becoming the President of the League of Nations in 1937.

Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.

Immediately after, he received several marks of distinction: he was made President of the Accademia di San Luca, the main artistic institution in Rome, and by the hand of the Pope himself his name was inscribed in " the Golden Volume of the Capitol ", and he received the title of Marquis of Ischia, with an annual pension of 3000 crowns.

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

The characterization is epitomized by an observation made by President Ramón Barros Luco ( 1910 – 1915 ), reputedly made in reference to labor unrest: " There are only two kinds of problems: those that solve themselves and those that can't be solved.

Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, “ made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States .” On August 10, he wrote a memo to President Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.

The announcement was made along with US President Bill Clinton, and U. K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.

For example, President Wilson proposed the Treaty of Versailles after World War I after consulting with allied powers, but this treaty was rejected by the U. S. Senate ; as a result, the U. S. subsequently made separate agreements with different nations.

Immediately after Pfieffer's ouster, Capellas was elevated to interim chief operating officer by Rosen, and after several months Capellas was made President and CEO, also assuming the title of Chairman on September 28, 2000 when Rosen retired from the board of directors.

Eritrea's President Isaias visited Djibouti in early 2001 and President Ismail Omar Guelleh made a reciprocal visit to Asmara in the early summer of 2001.

Katayama was made Vice President of the Nissan North American subsidiary in 1960, and as long as he was involved in decision making, both as North American Vice President from 1960 to 1965, and then President of Nissan Motor Company – USA from 1965 to 1975, the cars were sold as Datsuns.

In May 1957 Diem, then President of South Vietnam, made a state visit to the United States for ten days.

Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union message in February 1953, saying " I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces ".

After Eisenhower's death in 1969 ( see below ), an autopsy unexpectedly revealed an adrenal pheochromocytoma, a benign adrenaline-secreting tumor that may have made the President more vulnerable to heart disease.

However, in reality this also would not be true, because of the aforementioned standard of which the claim can be made, making every Vice President an Acting President.