1979 in Equatorial Guinea

Decades:	1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s;
See also:	Other events of 1979; Timeline of Equatoguinean history

The following lists events that happened during 1979 in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

Incumbents

3 August – Dictator Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea was overthrown in a bloody coup d'état led by his nephew, Teodoro Obiang^[2]
18 August – Ousted dictator Francisco Macías Nguema is captured near his home village of Mongomo.^[3]
23 August – The first ministerial cabinet of the Supreme Military Council was constituted, composed of eleven members:^[4]
29 September – Francisco Macías Nguema and six other defendants were convicted of genocide, embezzlement and treason, and were executed by a firing squad of soldiers from Morocco.^[5]
31 October – For the first time since 1971, a cooperation agreement and a protocol of action was signed between Spain and Equatorial Guinea, followed on 5 December by a financial cooperation agreement, and two protocols.^[6]

^ "Equatorial Guinea: Palace in the jungle: Ordinary folk see none of their country's riches". The Economist. 12 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
^ "Equatorial Guinea Reports Coup", The New York Times, August 6, 1979, p. A1
^ "Ousted Dictator Is Arrested In Equatorial Guinea Jungle", The New York Times, August 20, 1979, p. A11
^ Mansueto Nsí Owono – Okomo (2014). EL PROCESO POLÍTICO DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL (in Spanish). edit.um. ISBN 978-84-695-9920-4.
^ Equatorial Guinea. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
^ "Oficina de Información Diplomática. Ficha país: Guinea Ecuatorial" (PDF) (in Spanish). Oficina de Información Diplomática del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación de España. March 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
^ Miguel Mba at National-Football-Teams.com
^ Nguema Mbasogo, Obiang (23 June 2016). "Francisco Pascual Obama Asue named Prime Minister". Equatorial Guinea's Press and Information Office. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2017.

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v t e 1979 in Africa
Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South-West Africa Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Upper Volta Zambia Zaire
States with limited recognition	Rhodesia Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Ascension Island Mayotte Réunion Saint Helena Tristan da Cunha Western Sahara