Equatorial Guinea's cabinet has resigned as a result of an "institutional crisis", Europa Press reported on Saturday, quoting a presidential decree read out on state television.
The government was dissolved because it was not functioning and
did not "respect the majority opinion of the people and the supreme interests of the country", according to a statement presented by Prime Minister Angel Serafin Seriche Dugan to President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
AFP reported on Sunday that the government had been plagued
by corruption and the unpopularity of some of its members. It said
the resignation followed months of virulent attacks from parliamentarians of the ruling Partido democratico de Guinea Ecuatorial who, in October 2000, had called for its resignation.
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