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"Sipopo cost four times the annual education budget in what is perhaps the planet's most unequal society, a country where per-capita wealth exceeds Britain but three-quarters of its 675,000 citizens live on less than a dollar a day."
I suppose that this is what happens when oil hovers in the neighborhood of $100/barrel for a few years. It turns places like this from being merely lucrative into veritable diamond mines.
It seems that Chevron, Triton and ExxonMobil operate there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Equatorial_Guinea
I had some difficulty finding current information, but the State Department site says: "The country’s hydrocarbons industry is still dominated by United States (US) companies but Chinese companies are increasingly active providing significant credit lines." http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/7221.htm Fuck that. It should be off-limits. That's not development, it's stealing oil.