The vice president of Equatorial Guinea and son of the president Teodoro Nguema Obiang flew in on a private jet and stayed in a $75,000-a-night penthouse in New York for the UN Assembly, where he spoke about the lack of development in Africa. Between 2004 and 2011, his family spent $315 million worldwide on real estate, cars and luxury goods.

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Wtf. Too bad no one at the UN has a spine. Someone should have told him to go home, his hypocrisy speaks for itself.

The problem is that they are precisely the ones who fund his luxurious lifestyle.

In a roundabout way maybe, but the IMF & World Bank aren't run by the UN. They're all predatory institutions though.

Exactly what I was thinking

lol, UN is the worst of the worst of the political class.

eventually it is a race to the bottom, why is anyone surprised?

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The guy didn't speak about his family not being able to develop but Africa 🙃

Fuck

Waiting for the book to arrive today

If memory serves me right, the French justice issued a warrant against him, for corruption, money laundry, and for distracting public funds. They have seized his luxury cars and apartments in France, all financed with the country's resources (mostly oil) and foreign aid.

https://youtu.be/aDDFVMUJL04

(Foreign 'aid', a government program that forcefully transfers money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries, has massively failed the continent. Eq. Guinea is not an isolated case.)

Sounds like white privilege has struck again