2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt assault rifles, 150 hand grenades, 10 rocket-propelled grenade launchers (and 100 RPG shells), and 75,000 rounds of ammunition. Mann said he wanted the rifles, mortars and ammunition to guard diamond mines in volatile parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was alleged that those arrested in Zimbabwe made a stopover in Harare city to buy weapons and expected to join a team in Equatorial Guinea to overthrow President Obiang. Nick du Toit, the leader of the group of arrested in Equatorial Guinea, said at his trial in Equatorial Guinea that he was recruited by Simon Mann and that he
Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea en la nieve" by Luz Gabás, as well as its 2015 film adaptation "Palm Trees in the Snow", are set in the 1950s and 1960s colonial Spanish Guinea and 2000's Equatorial Guinea. Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea There are several works of fiction set in Equatorial Guinea. Fernando Po, now Bioko, is featured prominently in the 1975 science fiction work "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. The island (and, in turn, the country) experience a series of coups in the story which lead the world to the verge of nuclear war. The story also hypothesizes that