Cash put up for football victory

Equatorial Guinea’s national football team will share a £650,000 win bonus and earn £13,000 per goal against Libya’s team when the co-host makes its debut at the African Cup of Nations this Saturday.

The cash has been put up by Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of the country’s president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasolo, who has controlled the oil-rich nation since 1979.

The country has enjoyed a ten-year boom fuelled by oil and gas reserves but has attracted criticism for massive inequality between the rich and poor, a terrible democratic record and a lack of human rights.