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Equatorial Guinea President’s Hotel Holds U.S.-Deported Migrants, Ebola Patients

7/10/2026

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The hotel owned by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on Bioko Island is detaining U.S.-deported migrants and Ebola patients.
Seventeen migrants from Angola, Mauritania and Ethiopia are held at the Malabo hotel under a secret deportation deal, one of at least eight agreements made by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Rights lawyers have filed a complaint with Africa’s top human-rights body alleging Equatorial Guinea denied deportees protective supplies and medical care.

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The hotel owned by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on Bioko Island is detaining U.S.-deported migrants and Ebola patients.
Seventeen migrants from Angola, Mauritania and Ethiopia are held at the Malabo hotel under a secret deportation deal, one of at least eight agreements made by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Rights lawyers have filed a complaint with Africa’s top human-rights body alleging Equatorial Guinea denied deportees protective supplies and medical care.