Obiang's Intel services are underrated. He managed to capture *all* of the mercenaries (64 captured in Zimbabwe) headed for his country *before* they even reached Guinnea. His counter-coup services arrested all of the plotters (in South Africa) and smeared his chief local opposition leader.
You can hate him for being a ruthless dictator sitting on top of a sea of oil, but you've got to respect that his Intel is stopping plots before they even make it into his own country.
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I'm not sure that the coup was detected by Obiang's intel or whether is was South African agents who alerted him. The story didn't get a whole lot of coverage here in America.