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E. Guinea's president warns of 'serious terrorist' threat to country
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Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) March 20, 2015


Namibia's new president sworn in after landslide victory
Windhoek (AFP) March 21, 2015 - Namibia's new leader Hage Geingob was on Saturday sworn in as president, three months after he was elected in a landslide victory.

The 73-year-old president marked his inauguration by pledging to tackle poverty among the vast desert nation's 2.2 million population.

"I am declaring war on poverty and inequality," Geingob said in front of a packed stadium in the capital Windhoek.

Geingob, leader of South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), won the November 2014 vote with 87 percent of the vote, to become Namibia's third democratically elected leader.

Namibia, which gained independence from South Africa in 1990, after decades of German rule, delayed the inauguration to coincide with its independence day.

The ceremony was attended by several regional leaders including President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, President Ian Khama of Botswana and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe who has close ties with Namibia.

Geingob admitted in 2012 that the wealth of the uranium rich country was controlled by 10 percent of the population.

He replaces Hifikepunye Pohamba, also of SWAPO, who served the country for ten years.

Before his election, Geingob served as Namibia's prime minister.

Outgoing president Pohamba said he looked back with satisfaction because his government had achieved many of its national development goals during his term in office.

"There are still many socio-economic challenges facing our people, especially the youth, women and vulnerable sections of our population. Two of the most pressing are poverty and unemployment," he said.

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea has warned of "serious and adequate information" that his small central African country faces a terrorist threat.

"Central Africa faces a phenomenon it has never known, the phenomenon of terrorism," Obiang said in a televised broadcast on Thursday night, without naming the key regional threat, Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram, also active in neighbouring Cameroon.

Security forces have been deployed in impressive numbers over the past few days throughout the capital Malabo, which lies on an Atlantic island separate from the densely forested mainland.

Both soldiers and police have been patrolling and carrying out checks on main roads and the major junctions in the city.

"If the attackers come by sea... the navy, air force and army should be able to respond," said Obiang, who has ruled the former Spanish colony since 1979 and presided over the development of substantial oil resources.

At least 13,000 people are estimated to have died in Nigeria since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, including civilians killed in military operations as well as at the hands of the armed fundamentalists.

In February, Boko Haram launched attacks in Niger and Chad, extending the scope of raids and kidnappings beyond Nigeria and neighbouring northeast Cameroon.

Obiang on Thursday visited troops at a training centre for the army and other security forces in Mosala, near Malabo. The television showed military exercises simulating clashes between government troops and a group of insurgents.

"I came to encourage you to pursue your military exercises or manoeuvres, because there are some terrorist groups that destabilise (central African) states," the iron-fisted ruler said.

"The information we're getting is serious," he added, without giving details of any intelligence reports. "Be ready to push them back... We're going to do more exercises (to defend ourselves) by any means."


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