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Senior army officer under house arrest

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    The director general of logistics in the ministry of defence, Jaime Obama Owono, has been under house arrest since mid-May, AFP quoted an unidentified source at the ministry as saying.

    Also, citing the independent newspaper ‘La Opinion,’ AFP said that after an argument outside a discotheque Owono had ordered police to arrest and beat up one of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s Moroccan bodyguards “whom he did not know”.

    General Owono was sentenced to six months in prison by a secret “mini-war council” on 18 May in Malabo, the capital, which was later commuted to house arrest, AFP said quoting a Defence Ministry source.

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