By James Gwati-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in Equatorial Guinea to attend the inauguration of President Teodoro Nguema Mbasogo.

Mbasogo, the world’s longest-serving President, was re-election last month to a sixth term.

He has ruled the west African country since 1979.

The 80-year-old exercises near-total political control by silencing dissent and crack-down on rivals.

He criminalises protests, sensors media is heavily controlled, and arrests and tortures political opponents.