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Hundreds of ghost workers

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    Paymasters in three ministries in Equatorial Guinea are under investigation following the discovery of some 1,300 ghost workers, AFP reported on Tuesday, quoting a source close to the Finance Ministry.

    The fictitious jobs - 822 in the Education and Health Ministries, and 567 in the Ministry of Defence, were discovered during an two-month-old review of the public sector workforce, according to AFP.

    Equatorial Guinea has an estimated 5,000 public servants for a population of around 450,000, according to a 1993 census, AFP reported.

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