Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea will host Pope Leo XIV, who will need to balance support for the local Catholic population with calls for human rights and good governance under its authoritarian rule.

Equatorial Guinea is among the African nations Pope Leo will visit, the first papal visit since Pope John Paul II in 1982.

Equatorial Guinea received a payment of $7.5 million from the United States for accepting deportees. The payment coincided with the Trump administration developing ties with its vice president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang, who is accused of corruption.

Equatorial Guinea is mentioned as one of several African nations with notoriously repressive governments and poor human rights records that have signed similar deportation deals with the United States.

Global Sae-A Group===Ssangyong Engineering and Construction secured a construction project valued at USD 74 million in Equatorial Guinea, contributing to its expanded overseas orders.